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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -18
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 185 90 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.93% 7.55% 8.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.76% 7.91% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16 42 69
10th Percentile £53,500 £47,482 £46,306
25th Percentile £67,148 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.06% -3.38%
75th Percentile £80,030 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +13.54% +1.96% -1.92%

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 891 1,138 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.34% 95.47% 92.85%
Number of salaries quoted 382 441 768
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,438 £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 £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.08%

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 27 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 27 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 17 (9.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) CICS
2 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 37 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.16%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 170 (91.89%) Azure
2 128 (69.19%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (67.03%) GitHub
4 72 (38.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 53 (28.65%) Snowflake
6 51 (27.57%) dbt
7 44 (23.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (20.54%) AWS
9 37 (20.00%) OCI
10 28 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (12.97%) Power Platform
12 20 (10.81%) Entra ID
13 19 (10.27%) Azure Key Vault
14 15 (8.11%) Datadog
15 14 (7.57%) Azure Event Grid
15 14 (7.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (7.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (6.49%) Salesforce Einstein
17 11 (5.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.41%) Firewall
2 6 (3.24%) DNS
2 6 (3.24%) LAN
2 6 (3.24%) WAN
3 5 (2.70%) VPN
4 4 (2.16%) BGP
4 4 (2.16%) MPLS
4 4 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.16%) Wireless
5 3 (1.62%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.08%) Broadband
6 2 (1.08%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (12.97%) Power BI
3 17 (9.19%) Tableau
4 14 (7.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (3.78%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.78%) Metadata
6 6 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.16%) Redis
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.08%) DB2
8 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (22.70%) JIRA
2 39 (21.08%) Jenkins
3 37 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 20 (10.81%) Git
5 6 (3.24%) Storybook
6 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Locust
General
1 164 (88.65%) Finance
2 62 (33.51%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.73%) Marketing
5 7 (3.78%) Games
6 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.08%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Retail
7 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 84 (45.41%) Senior
2 48 (25.95%) Applications Engineer
3 43 (23.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (12.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.57%) Development Engineer
7 10 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.32%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (2.16%) Applications Support
11 4 (2.16%) Applications Support Engineer
11 4 (2.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.16%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.16%) Lead
11 4 (2.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.16%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.19%) RESTful
2 46 (24.86%) SOAP
3 42 (22.70%) OAuth
4 40 (21.62%) JSON
5 31 (16.76%) OAuth2
6 26 (14.05%) REST
7 24 (12.97%) Lightning Web Components
8 20 (10.81%) XML
9 17 (9.19%) SAML
10 14 (7.57%) .NET
10 14 (7.57%) ADO
11 11 (5.95%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.95%) OpenAPI
11 11 (5.95%) Swagger
12 8 (4.32%) YAML
13 6 (3.24%) JSON-LD
13 6 (3.24%) Next.js
13 6 (3.24%) React
14 4 (2.16%) Django
15 2 (1.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 75 (40.54%) Cloud Native
2 43 (23.24%) Product Ownership
3 37 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.57%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.78%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Unix
2 6 (3.24%) Windows
3 4 (2.16%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (92.97%) DevOps
2 161 (87.03%) Coaching
3 159 (85.95%) Asset Management
4 126 (68.11%) Agile
5 117 (63.24%) Test Automation
6 97 (52.43%) Observability
7 76 (41.08%) AI
8 73 (39.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (34.05%) Mentoring
10 62 (33.51%) Clean Code
10 62 (33.51%) Data Modelling
11 57 (30.81%) Analytics
12 49 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 46 (24.86%) Migration
15 42 (22.70%) API Integration
16 41 (22.16%) Sprint Planning
16 41 (22.16%) Sprint Retrospective
17 40 (21.62%) Root Cause Analysis
18 39 (21.08%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 91 (49.19%) Python
2 86 (46.49%) SQL
3 42 (22.70%) Java
4 39 (21.08%) Shell Script
5 37 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 36 (19.46%) PowerShell
7 24 (12.97%) Apex Code
8 18 (9.73%) Bicep
9 15 (8.11%) JavaScript
10 11 (5.95%) C#
11 7 (3.78%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.08%) SOQL
12 2 (1.08%) SOSL
13 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.27%) Accessibility
2 16 (8.65%) QA
3 14 (7.57%) GDPR
4 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (14.59%) Docker
2 26 (14.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) RACF
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (58.38%) Terraform
2 37 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (12.43%) Kubernetes
4 22 (11.89%) Grafana
5 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.86%) Ansible
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 46 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 39 (21.08%) Oracle
3 24 (12.97%) Salesforce
4 20 (10.81%) Okta
5 18 (9.73%) Ab Initio
6 9 (4.86%) Splunk
7 7 (3.78%) Databricks
8 6 (3.24%) IBM
9 5 (2.70%) Google
9 5 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.16%) F5
10 4 (2.16%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.08%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.08%) Informatica