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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 21 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -20
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 154 104 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 13.18% 10.64% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.35% 10.87% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 20 64 54
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,686 £37,875
25th Percentile £59,438 £53,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £75,360 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +15.94% -6.40%
75th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £79,900
90th Percentile £87,475 £144,613 £106,750
Scotland median annual salary £67,000 £65,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +4.80% -7.41%

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 942 957 1,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 80.65% 97.95% 90.51%
Number of salaries quoted 489 441 916
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £32,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,569 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £46,288 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.84% +4.76% -10.88%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 10 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.60%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 133 (86.36%) Azure
2 98 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
3 96 (62.34%) GitHub
4 57 (37.01%) GitHub Copilot
5 45 (29.22%) Snowflake
6 43 (27.92%) dbt
7 39 (25.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (17.53%) AWS
9 24 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (14.29%) OCI
11 19 (12.34%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (11.69%) Power Platform
13 13 (8.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (7.79%) Azure Event Grid
14 12 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (7.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (7.79%) Entra ID
14 12 (7.79%) GCP
15 11 (7.14%) Datadog
16 10 (6.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.95%) BGP
2 3 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.95%) LAN
2 3 (1.95%) MPLS
2 3 (1.95%) WAN
2 3 (1.95%) Wireless
3 2 (1.30%) Broadband
3 2 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.53%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (11.69%) Power BI
3 10 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.49%) Tableau
4 8 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.55%) Metadata
6 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (17.53%) JIRA
2 26 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (9.09%) Git
5 6 (3.90%) Storybook
6 3 (1.95%) fastlane
7 2 (1.30%) GitLab
7 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.30%) Xcode
8 1 (0.65%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.65%) Appium
8 1 (0.65%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.65%) Gradle
8 1 (0.65%) JMeter
8 1 (0.65%) Locust
8 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.65%) TestRail
8 1 (0.65%) Zephyr
General
1 127 (82.47%) Finance
2 55 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.69%) Marketing
5 11 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.19%) Games
7 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (44.81%) Senior
2 33 (21.43%) Applications Engineer
3 22 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (12.34%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (7.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Development Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (5.19%) Senior Development Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (3.25%) Lead
9 5 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Applications Support
10 4 (2.60%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Informatica Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Support Engineer
11 3 (1.95%) Architect
11 3 (1.95%) Network Engineer
11 3 (1.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (25.32%) RESTful
2 38 (24.68%) SOAP
3 33 (21.43%) OAuth
4 30 (19.48%) JSON
5 27 (17.53%) REST
6 22 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
6 22 (14.29%) OAuth2
7 12 (7.79%) XML
8 11 (7.14%) .NET
8 11 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 11 (7.14%) OpenAPI
8 11 (7.14%) Swagger
9 10 (6.49%) ADO
9 10 (6.49%) SAML
10 8 (5.19%) YAML
11 6 (3.90%) JSON-LD
11 6 (3.90%) Next.js
11 6 (3.90%) React
12 4 (2.60%) Django
13 3 (1.95%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 53 (34.42%) Cloud Native
2 38 (24.68%) Product Ownership
3 23 (14.94%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (6.49%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.19%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Linux
1 8 (5.19%) Unix
2 4 (2.60%) Android
2 4 (2.60%) Windows
3 3 (1.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (89.61%) DevOps
2 126 (81.82%) Coaching
3 124 (80.52%) Asset Management
4 110 (71.43%) Agile
5 93 (60.39%) Test Automation
6 77 (50.00%) Observability
7 59 (38.31%) AI
7 59 (38.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (36.36%) Data Modelling
9 51 (33.12%) Mentoring
10 49 (31.82%) Clean Code
11 45 (29.22%) Analytics
12 43 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (23.38%) Data Integration
15 33 (21.43%) API Integration
15 33 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
15 33 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
16 32 (20.78%) Root Cause Analysis
17 31 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.86%) Python
1 66 (42.86%) SQL
2 29 (18.83%) PowerShell
3 27 (17.53%) Java
4 26 (16.88%) Shell Script
5 22 (14.29%) Apex Code
5 22 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 12 (7.79%) Bicep
6 12 (7.79%) C#
7 10 (6.49%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.90%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.30%) SOQL
11 2 (1.30%) SOSL
11 2 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.99%) Accessibility
2 14 (9.09%) GDPR
3 13 (8.44%) QA
4 11 (7.14%) Data Quality
5 10 (6.49%) WCAG
6 2 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (10.39%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 79 (51.30%) Terraform
2 22 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (9.09%) Grafana
4 13 (8.44%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.25%) Ansible
6 4 (2.60%) Control-M
7 3 (1.95%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 36 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.88%) Oracle
3 22 (14.29%) Salesforce
4 16 (10.39%) Ab Initio
5 12 (7.79%) Okta
6 10 (6.49%) Google
7 7 (4.55%) Databricks
8 5 (3.25%) Pega
8 5 (3.25%) Splunk
9 4 (2.60%) IBM
9 4 (2.60%) Informatica
10 3 (1.95%) F5
10 3 (1.95%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.95%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.65%) Apple