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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 187 83 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.81% 7.33% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.80% 7.61% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 65
10th Percentile £52,100 £47,231 £46,306
25th Percentile £66,795 £55,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.06% -3.38%
75th Percentile £81,270 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,600 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.54% - -

All Process & 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 899 1,091 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.62% 96.29% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 382 409 784
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,200 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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 17 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.07%) CICS
3 2 (1.07%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 37 (19.79%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 170 (90.91%) Azure
2 128 (68.45%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (66.31%) GitHub
4 72 (38.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 53 (28.34%) Snowflake
6 51 (27.27%) dbt
7 44 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 39 (20.86%) AWS
9 37 (19.79%) OCI
10 28 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (12.83%) Power Platform
12 20 (10.70%) Entra ID
13 19 (10.16%) Azure Key Vault
14 15 (8.02%) Datadog
15 14 (7.49%) Azure Event Grid
15 14 (7.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (6.42%) Salesforce Einstein
17 11 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Firewall
2 6 (3.21%) DNS
2 6 (3.21%) LAN
2 6 (3.21%) WAN
3 5 (2.67%) VPN
4 4 (2.14%) BGP
4 4 (2.14%) MPLS
4 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.14%) Wireless
5 3 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.07%) Broadband
6 2 (1.07%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.72%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (12.83%) Power BI
3 17 (9.09%) Tableau
4 14 (7.49%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.74%) Metadata
7 4 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.14%) Redis
7 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.07%) DB2
8 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (22.46%) JIRA
2 39 (20.86%) Jenkins
3 37 (19.79%) Oracle Forms
4 21 (11.23%) Git
5 6 (3.21%) Storybook
6 2 (1.07%) GitLab
6 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) Locust
General
1 164 (87.70%) Finance
2 64 (34.22%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.63%) Marketing
5 8 (4.28%) Games
6 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.07%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (45.45%) Senior
2 48 (25.67%) Applications Engineer
3 43 (22.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (13.37%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Development Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (2.67%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Applications Support
12 4 (2.14%) Applications Support Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Informatica Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Lead
12 4 (2.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.88%) RESTful
2 48 (25.67%) SOAP
3 42 (22.46%) OAuth
4 40 (21.39%) JSON
5 31 (16.58%) OAuth2
6 28 (14.97%) REST
7 24 (12.83%) Lightning Web Components
8 20 (10.70%) XML
9 17 (9.09%) SAML
10 14 (7.49%) .NET
10 14 (7.49%) ADO
11 11 (5.88%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.88%) OpenAPI
11 11 (5.88%) Swagger
12 8 (4.28%) YAML
13 6 (3.21%) JSON-LD
13 6 (3.21%) Next.js
13 6 (3.21%) React
14 4 (2.14%) Django
15 3 (1.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 75 (40.11%) Cloud Native
2 43 (22.99%) Product Ownership
3 37 (19.79%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.49%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.74%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.07%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Unix
3 6 (3.21%) Windows
4 4 (2.14%) VMS
5 2 (1.07%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (91.44%) DevOps
2 161 (86.10%) Coaching
3 159 (85.03%) Asset Management
4 127 (67.91%) Agile
5 116 (62.03%) Test Automation
6 96 (51.34%) Observability
7 76 (40.64%) AI
8 73 (39.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (34.22%) Data Modelling
10 63 (33.69%) Mentoring
11 62 (33.16%) Clean Code
12 57 (30.48%) Analytics
13 50 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (24.60%) Migration
16 44 (23.53%) API Integration
17 42 (22.46%) Root Cause Analysis
18 41 (21.93%) Sprint Planning
18 41 (21.93%) Sprint Retrospective
19 39 (20.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 91 (48.66%) Python
2 88 (47.06%) SQL
3 41 (21.93%) Java
3 41 (21.93%) Shell Script
4 37 (19.79%) PL/SQL
5 36 (19.25%) PowerShell
6 24 (12.83%) Apex Code
7 18 (9.63%) Bicep
8 14 (7.49%) JavaScript
9 11 (5.88%) C#
10 7 (3.74%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.21%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.07%) SOQL
12 2 (1.07%) SOSL
13 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (2.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) Accessibility
2 16 (8.56%) QA
3 14 (7.49%) GDPR
4 11 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (13.90%) Active Directory
1 26 (13.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) RACF
2 2 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (57.75%) Terraform
2 37 (19.79%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (11.76%) Grafana
3 22 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 19 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.81%) Ansible
6 4 (2.14%) Control-M
7 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 46 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.93%) Oracle
3 24 (12.83%) Salesforce
4 20 (10.70%) Okta
5 18 (9.63%) Ab Initio
6 9 (4.81%) Splunk
7 7 (3.74%) Databricks
8 6 (3.21%) IBM
9 5 (2.67%) Google
9 5 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.67%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.14%) F5
10 4 (2.14%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.14%) Informatica
11 2 (1.07%) Broadcom