CI/CD Job Trends in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 30 30
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 158 88 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.10% 6.77% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.24% 7.39% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 73
10th Percentile £46,500 £49,995 £43,560
25th Percentile £62,000 £54,375 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,940 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +6.06% -3.38%
75th Percentile £80,030 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,717 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £70,039 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 821 1,191 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.85% 91.62% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 358 492 767
10th Percentile £25,730 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,314 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,462 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 29 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 2 - -
CI/CD
Scotland

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.27%) CICS
2 2 (1.27%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 31 (19.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 142 (89.87%) Azure
2 108 (68.35%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (65.82%) GitHub
4 60 (37.97%) GitHub Copilot
5 42 (26.58%) dbt
5 42 (26.58%) Snowflake
6 34 (21.52%) AWS
7 32 (20.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (19.62%) OCI
9 22 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (13.92%) Power Platform
10 17 (10.76%) Entra ID
11 13 (8.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (7.59%) Datadog
13 11 (6.96%) Azure Event Grid
13 11 (6.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (6.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (6.96%) GCP
14 9 (5.70%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.33%) Firewall
2 6 (3.80%) DNS
2 6 (3.80%) LAN
2 6 (3.80%) WAN
3 5 (3.16%) BGP
3 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.16%) VPN
4 4 (2.53%) MPLS
4 4 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (2.53%) Wireless
5 2 (1.27%) Broadband
5 2 (1.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.63%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.63%) OSPF
6 1 (0.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (13.92%) Power BI
3 14 (8.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 14 (8.86%) Tableau
4 5 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.53%) Metadata
5 4 (2.53%) Redis
6 2 (1.27%) DB2
6 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (24.68%) JIRA
2 33 (20.89%) Jenkins
3 31 (19.62%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (10.13%) Git
5 6 (3.80%) Storybook
6 2 (1.27%) GitLab
6 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Locust
General
1 135 (85.44%) Finance
2 54 (34.18%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.49%) Marketing
5 7 (4.43%) Games
6 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Legal
7 1 (0.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (43.67%) Senior
2 39 (24.68%) Applications Engineer
3 37 (23.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (13.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 19 (12.03%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Development Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 5 (3.16%) Lead
10 5 (3.16%) Senior Development Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.53%) Software Engineer
12 3 (1.90%) Developer
12 3 (1.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (28.48%) RESTful
2 35 (22.15%) SOAP
3 34 (21.52%) JSON
4 33 (20.89%) OAuth
5 25 (15.82%) OAuth2
6 19 (12.03%) REST
7 18 (11.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (10.76%) XML
9 14 (8.86%) SAML
10 12 (7.59%) .NET
10 12 (7.59%) ADO
11 8 (5.06%) GraphQL
11 8 (5.06%) OpenAPI
11 8 (5.06%) Swagger
12 6 (3.80%) JSON-LD
12 6 (3.80%) Next.js
12 6 (3.80%) React
13 5 (3.16%) YAML
14 4 (2.53%) Django
15 2 (1.27%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 64 (40.51%) Cloud Native
2 34 (21.52%) Product Ownership
3 31 (19.62%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.43%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.80%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Unix
2 4 (2.53%) VMS
3 3 (1.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (91.14%) DevOps
2 131 (82.91%) Coaching
3 129 (81.65%) Asset Management
4 106 (67.09%) Agile
5 100 (63.29%) Test Automation
6 79 (50.00%) Observability
7 64 (40.51%) AI
8 61 (38.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (34.81%) Mentoring
10 53 (33.54%) Clean Code
11 49 (31.01%) Analytics
12 45 (28.48%) Data Modelling
13 44 (27.85%) Migration
14 39 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
14 39 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (22.15%) Sprint Planning
15 35 (22.15%) Sprint Retrospective
16 34 (21.52%) API Integration
17 32 (20.25%) ETL
18 31 (19.62%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 78 (49.37%) Python
2 68 (43.04%) SQL
3 37 (23.42%) Java
4 31 (19.62%) PL/SQL
4 31 (19.62%) Shell Script
5 27 (17.09%) PowerShell
6 18 (11.39%) Apex Code
7 15 (9.49%) Bicep
8 12 (7.59%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.96%) C#
10 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.27%) SOQL
12 2 (1.27%) SOSL
13 1 (0.63%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.13%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.86%) QA
3 11 (6.96%) GDPR
4 7 (4.43%) WCAG
5 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (15.19%) Docker
2 20 (12.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) RACF
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (56.96%) Terraform
2 31 (19.62%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (12.66%) Kubernetes
4 19 (12.03%) Grafana
5 16 (10.13%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.33%) Ansible
7 3 (1.90%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 34 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.25%) Oracle
3 18 (11.39%) Salesforce
4 17 (10.76%) Okta
5 12 (7.59%) Ab Initio
6 9 (5.70%) Splunk
7 5 (3.16%) Google
7 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.16%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.53%) Databricks
8 4 (2.53%) F5
8 4 (2.53%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.90%) IBM
10 2 (1.27%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco