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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 137 87 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.36% 6.64% 8.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.28% 7.26% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 74
10th Percentile £46,500 £49,649 £43,903
25th Percentile £62,000 £54,063 £51,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,940 £69,308 £66,425
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +4.34% -1.79%
75th Percentile £80,030 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,186 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £70,039 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% - -

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 793 1,198 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.90% 91.45% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 359 497 770
10th Percentile £25,737 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,375 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £76,385
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 28 November 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 28 November 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 12 (8.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.46%) CICS
2 2 (1.46%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (87.59%) Azure
2 91 (66.42%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (64.23%) GitHub
4 50 (36.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 35 (25.55%) dbt
6 34 (24.82%) Snowflake
7 32 (23.36%) AWS
8 27 (19.71%) OCI
9 25 (18.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (13.87%) Power Platform
11 18 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.95%) Entra ID
13 11 (8.03%) GCP
14 10 (7.30%) Datadog
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (5.11%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) Firewall
2 6 (4.38%) BGP
2 6 (4.38%) DNS
2 6 (4.38%) LAN
2 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.38%) WAN
3 5 (3.65%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (3.65%) VPN
4 4 (2.92%) MPLS
4 4 (2.92%) Wireless
5 2 (1.46%) Broadband
5 2 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.46%) DHCP
5 2 (1.46%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.46%) OSPF
5 2 (1.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (13.87%) Power BI
3 13 (9.49%) Snowflake Schema
4 12 (8.76%) Tableau
5 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.92%) Redis
7 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.19%) Metadata
8 2 (1.46%) DB2
8 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (25.55%) JIRA
2 29 (21.17%) Jenkins
3 27 (19.71%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (10.22%) Git
5 5 (3.65%) Storybook
6 2 (1.46%) GitLab
6 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) Locust
General
1 113 (82.48%) Finance
2 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.76%) Marketing
5 7 (5.11%) Games
6 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.46%) Law
7 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Retail
7 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (42.34%) Senior
2 33 (24.09%) Applications Engineer
2 33 (24.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (13.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Development Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (3.65%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Lead
9 5 (3.65%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Senior Development Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.47%) RESTful
2 29 (21.17%) JSON
2 29 (21.17%) SOAP
3 27 (19.71%) OAuth
4 21 (15.33%) OAuth2
5 15 (10.95%) REST
5 15 (10.95%) XML
6 14 (10.22%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (8.76%) SAML
8 10 (7.30%) .NET
8 10 (7.30%) ADO
9 6 (4.38%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.38%) OpenAPI
9 6 (4.38%) Swagger
10 5 (3.65%) JSON-LD
10 5 (3.65%) Next.js
10 5 (3.65%) React
11 4 (2.92%) Django
12 3 (2.19%) YAML
13 2 (1.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (40.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.44%) Product Ownership
3 27 (19.71%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.57%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.38%) Low-Code
5 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.73%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Unix
2 4 (2.92%) VMS
3 2 (1.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (90.51%) DevOps
2 109 (79.56%) Coaching
3 107 (78.10%) Asset Management
4 90 (65.69%) Agile
5 85 (62.04%) Test Automation
6 67 (48.91%) Observability
7 54 (39.42%) AI
8 51 (37.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (35.04%) Mentoring
10 45 (32.85%) Clean Code
11 42 (30.66%) Analytics
12 41 (29.93%) Migration
13 35 (25.55%) Data Modelling
14 33 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (21.90%) API Integration
16 29 (21.17%) Sprint Planning
16 29 (21.17%) Sprint Retrospective
17 27 (19.71%) ERP
17 27 (19.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 68 (49.64%) Python
2 57 (41.61%) SQL
3 33 (24.09%) Java
4 27 (19.71%) PL/SQL
4 27 (19.71%) Shell Script
5 22 (16.06%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.22%) Apex Code
7 13 (9.49%) Bicep
8 10 (7.30%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.57%) C#
10 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.46%) SOQL
12 2 (1.46%) SOSL
13 1 (0.73%) C++
13 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.76%) QA
3 9 (6.57%) GDPR
4 6 (4.38%) WCAG
5 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (16.06%) Docker
2 17 (12.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.46%) RACF
3 2 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (56.93%) Terraform
2 27 (19.71%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (13.14%) Kubernetes
4 17 (12.41%) Grafana
5 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.03%) Ansible
7 3 (2.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 28 (20.44%) Oracle
2 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.95%) Okta
4 14 (10.22%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.57%) Ab Initio
5 9 (6.57%) Splunk
6 5 (3.65%) Google
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.92%) F5
7 4 (2.92%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.19%) Databricks
9 2 (1.46%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco
9 2 (1.46%) IBM