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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 174 87 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.63% 7.10% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.14% 7.56% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17 39 70
10th Percentile £54,900 £49,995 £42,874
25th Percentile £66,091 £55,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £94,150 £94,717 £92,395
Scotland median annual salary £71,940 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.68% - -

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 864 1,151 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.54% 93.96% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 374 456 754
10th Percentile £25,825 £35,053 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,063 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £94,250
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 14 December 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 14 December 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 16 (9.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.15%) CICS
2 2 (1.15%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 35 (20.11%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.72%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 161 (92.53%) Azure
2 122 (70.11%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (67.24%) GitHub
4 68 (39.08%) GitHub Copilot
5 49 (28.16%) Snowflake
6 48 (27.59%) dbt
7 40 (22.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (20.11%) AWS
8 35 (20.11%) OCI
9 26 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (13.22%) Power Platform
11 19 (10.92%) Entra ID
12 17 (9.77%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (8.05%) Datadog
14 13 (7.47%) Azure Event Grid
14 13 (7.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (7.47%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (7.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (6.32%) GCP
15 11 (6.32%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.75%) Firewall
2 6 (3.45%) DNS
2 6 (3.45%) LAN
2 6 (3.45%) WAN
3 5 (2.87%) VPN
4 4 (2.30%) BGP
4 4 (2.30%) MPLS
4 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.30%) Wireless
5 3 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.15%) Broadband
6 2 (1.15%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (13.22%) Power BI
3 16 (9.20%) Tableau
4 14 (8.05%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.45%) Metadata
6 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.30%) Redis
7 2 (1.15%) DB2
7 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (23.56%) JIRA
2 37 (21.26%) Jenkins
3 35 (20.11%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (9.77%) Git
5 6 (3.45%) Storybook
6 2 (1.15%) GitLab
6 2 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) Locust
General
1 154 (88.51%) Finance
2 58 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.77%) Marketing
5 7 (4.02%) Games
6 2 (1.15%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (45.40%) Senior
2 45 (25.86%) Applications Engineer
3 41 (23.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (13.22%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (13.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (7.47%) Development Engineer
6 10 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.02%) Senior Development Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 5 (2.87%) Lead
11 4 (2.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Software Engineer
12 3 (1.72%) Applications Support
12 3 (1.72%) Network Engineer
12 3 (1.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.31%) RESTful
2 41 (23.56%) SOAP
3 39 (22.41%) OAuth
4 38 (21.84%) JSON
5 29 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 22 (12.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 22 (12.64%) REST
7 19 (10.92%) XML
8 16 (9.20%) SAML
9 14 (8.05%) ADO
10 13 (7.47%) .NET
11 10 (5.75%) GraphQL
11 10 (5.75%) OpenAPI
11 10 (5.75%) Swagger
12 7 (4.02%) YAML
13 6 (3.45%) JSON-LD
13 6 (3.45%) Next.js
13 6 (3.45%) React
14 4 (2.30%) Django
15 2 (1.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 71 (40.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (22.99%) Product Ownership
3 35 (20.11%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.47%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.02%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.45%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Unix
3 4 (2.30%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (93.68%) DevOps
2 151 (86.78%) Coaching
3 149 (85.63%) Asset Management
4 119 (68.39%) Agile
5 111 (63.79%) Test Automation
6 91 (52.30%) Observability
7 72 (41.38%) AI
8 69 (39.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (34.48%) Mentoring
10 59 (33.91%) Clean Code
11 55 (31.61%) Data Modelling
12 54 (31.03%) Analytics
13 45 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 45 (25.86%) Migration
13 45 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (22.41%) Sprint Planning
14 39 (22.41%) Sprint Retrospective
15 38 (21.84%) API Integration
16 36 (20.69%) RBAC
17 35 (20.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (49.43%) Python
2 79 (45.40%) SQL
3 40 (22.99%) Java
4 35 (20.11%) PL/SQL
4 35 (20.11%) Shell Script
5 33 (18.97%) PowerShell
6 22 (12.64%) Apex Code
7 17 (9.77%) Bicep
8 14 (8.05%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.32%) C#
10 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.45%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.15%) SOQL
12 2 (1.15%) SOSL
13 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.87%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 15 (8.62%) QA
3 13 (7.47%) GDPR
4 7 (4.02%) WCAG
5 6 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (14.94%) Docker
2 24 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) RACF
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (58.62%) Terraform
2 35 (20.11%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
4 21 (12.07%) Grafana
5 18 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.17%) Ansible
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 42 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.11%) Oracle
3 22 (12.64%) Salesforce
4 19 (10.92%) Okta
5 16 (9.20%) Ab Initio
6 9 (5.17%) Splunk
7 6 (3.45%) Databricks
8 5 (2.87%) Google
8 5 (2.87%) IBM
8 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.87%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.30%) F5
9 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.15%) Broadcom