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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 164 88 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.14% 6.90% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 7.46% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17 39 73
10th Percentile £54,900 £49,995 £43,560
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% -3.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £94,150 £94,717 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.54% - -

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 844 1,179 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.19% 92.47% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 369 483 767
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,443 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -8.09% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,318
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 7 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 7 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 15 (9.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.22%) CICS
2 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 33 (20.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.22%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 151 (92.07%) Azure
2 115 (70.12%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (67.07%) GitHub
4 64 (39.02%) GitHub Copilot
5 45 (27.44%) dbt
5 45 (27.44%) Snowflake
6 36 (21.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (20.73%) AWS
8 33 (20.12%) OCI
9 24 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (13.41%) Power Platform
11 18 (10.98%) Entra ID
12 15 (9.15%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (7.93%) Datadog
14 12 (7.32%) Azure Event Grid
14 12 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (6.71%) GCP
16 10 (6.10%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.10%) Firewall
2 6 (3.66%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) LAN
2 6 (3.66%) WAN
3 5 (3.05%) VPN
4 4 (2.44%) BGP
4 4 (2.44%) MPLS
4 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.44%) Wireless
5 3 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.22%) Broadband
6 2 (1.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.90%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (13.41%) Power BI
3 15 (9.15%) Tableau
4 14 (8.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.05%) Metadata
6 4 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.44%) Redis
7 2 (1.22%) DB2
7 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (24.39%) JIRA
2 35 (21.34%) Jenkins
3 33 (20.12%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (9.76%) Git
5 6 (3.66%) Storybook
6 2 (1.22%) GitLab
6 2 (1.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 144 (87.80%) Finance
2 55 (33.54%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.76%) Marketing
5 7 (4.27%) Games
6 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.22%) Law
7 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
7 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (45.12%) Senior
2 42 (25.61%) Applications Engineer
3 39 (23.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (13.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 21 (12.80%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Development Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Development Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Lead
12 4 (2.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.44%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.44%) Software Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Network Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (29.27%) RESTful
2 38 (23.17%) SOAP
3 36 (21.95%) JSON
3 36 (21.95%) OAuth
4 27 (16.46%) OAuth2
5 20 (12.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 20 (12.20%) REST
6 18 (10.98%) XML
7 15 (9.15%) SAML
8 13 (7.93%) ADO
9 12 (7.32%) .NET
10 9 (5.49%) GraphQL
10 9 (5.49%) OpenAPI
10 9 (5.49%) Swagger
11 6 (3.66%) JSON-LD
11 6 (3.66%) Next.js
11 6 (3.66%) React
11 6 (3.66%) YAML
12 4 (2.44%) Django
13 2 (1.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 67 (40.85%) Cloud Native
2 37 (22.56%) Product Ownership
3 33 (20.12%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (7.32%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.27%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.66%) Linux
2 4 (2.44%) Unix
2 4 (2.44%) VMS
2 4 (2.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (93.29%) DevOps
2 141 (85.98%) Coaching
3 139 (84.76%) Asset Management
4 111 (67.68%) Agile
5 105 (64.02%) Test Automation
6 85 (51.83%) Observability
7 68 (41.46%) AI
8 65 (39.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (34.76%) Mentoring
10 56 (34.15%) Clean Code
11 51 (31.10%) Analytics
12 50 (30.49%) Data Modelling
13 44 (26.83%) Migration
14 42 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (22.56%) Sprint Planning
15 37 (22.56%) Sprint Retrospective
16 36 (21.95%) API Integration
17 33 (20.12%) ERP
17 33 (20.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 81 (49.39%) Python
2 73 (44.51%) SQL
3 38 (23.17%) Java
4 33 (20.12%) PL/SQL
4 33 (20.12%) Shell Script
5 30 (18.29%) PowerShell
6 20 (12.20%) Apex Code
7 16 (9.76%) Bicep
8 13 (7.93%) JavaScript
9 10 (6.10%) C#
10 7 (4.27%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.05%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.22%) SOQL
12 2 (1.22%) SOSL
13 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.05%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.54%) QA
3 12 (7.32%) GDPR
4 7 (4.27%) WCAG
5 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (15.24%) Docker
2 22 (13.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) RACF
3 2 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 96 (58.54%) Terraform
2 33 (20.12%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (12.80%) Kubernetes
4 20 (12.20%) Grafana
5 17 (10.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.49%) Ansible
7 3 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 38 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 33 (20.12%) Oracle
3 20 (12.20%) Salesforce
4 18 (10.98%) Okta
5 14 (8.54%) Ab Initio
6 9 (5.49%) Splunk
7 5 (3.05%) Databricks
7 5 (3.05%) Google
7 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.05%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.44%) F5
8 4 (2.44%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.44%) IBM
9 2 (1.22%) Broadcom