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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 126 87 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 14.62% 6.74% 9.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.20% 7.49% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 75
10th Percentile £46,500 £49,995 £44,246
25th Percentile £62,000 £54,375 £51,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,940 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +2.68% -0.20%
75th Percentile £80,030 £85,000 £83,302
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,695 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £70,079 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.81% - -

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 778 1,161 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.26% 89.93% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 349 477 768
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £46,306 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +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 18 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 18 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 11 (8.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.59%) CICS
2 2 (1.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 25 (19.84%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (85.71%) Azure
2 81 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (62.70%) GitHub
4 44 (34.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 31 (24.60%) AWS
5 31 (24.60%) dbt
6 30 (23.81%) Snowflake
7 25 (19.84%) OCI
8 22 (17.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (13.49%) Power Platform
10 16 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (11.11%) Entra ID
12 11 (8.73%) GCP
13 9 (7.14%) Datadog
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Event Grid
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (6.35%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (4.76%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.94%) Firewall
2 7 (5.56%) BGP
2 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.76%) DNS
3 6 (4.76%) LAN
3 6 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (4.76%) WAN
4 5 (3.97%) VPN
5 4 (3.17%) MPLS
5 4 (3.17%) Wireless
6 3 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.38%) NX-OS
6 3 (2.38%) OSPF
6 3 (2.38%) VXLAN
7 2 (1.59%) Broadband
7 2 (1.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (13.49%) Power BI
3 12 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 11 (8.73%) Tableau
5 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.17%) Redis
7 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.38%) Metadata
8 2 (1.59%) DB2
8 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (25.40%) JIRA
2 27 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 25 (19.84%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (10.32%) Git
5 4 (3.17%) Storybook
6 2 (1.59%) GitLab
6 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.79%) JMeter
7 1 (0.79%) Locust
General
1 101 (80.16%) Finance
2 43 (34.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Marketing
5 5 (3.97%) Games
6 2 (1.59%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (39.68%) Senior
2 31 (24.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (23.81%) Applications Engineer
4 18 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) Development Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Lead
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.38%) Data Network Engineer
12 3 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.38%) Java Engineer
12 3 (2.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.57%) RESTful
2 26 (20.63%) JSON
2 26 (20.63%) SOAP
3 24 (19.05%) OAuth
4 19 (15.08%) OAuth2
5 14 (11.11%) XML
6 13 (10.32%) REST
7 12 (9.52%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (8.73%) SAML
9 9 (7.14%) .NET
9 9 (7.14%) ADO
10 5 (3.97%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.97%) OpenAPI
10 5 (3.97%) Swagger
11 4 (3.17%) Django
11 4 (3.17%) JSON-LD
11 4 (3.17%) Next.js
11 4 (3.17%) React
12 3 (2.38%) Middleware
13 2 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (39.68%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.84%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (19.84%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.97%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.97%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.38%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.79%) CMDB
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.76%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Unix
2 4 (3.17%) VMS
3 2 (1.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (92.06%) DevOps
2 97 (76.98%) Coaching
3 95 (75.40%) Asset Management
4 83 (65.87%) Agile
5 76 (60.32%) Test Automation
6 61 (48.41%) Observability
7 48 (38.10%) AI
8 45 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (33.33%) Mentoring
10 40 (31.75%) Clean Code
11 39 (30.95%) Migration
12 38 (30.16%) Analytics
13 30 (23.81%) Data Modelling
13 30 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (22.22%) API Integration
15 25 (19.84%) ERP
15 25 (19.84%) Sprint Planning
15 25 (19.84%) Sprint Retrospective
16 24 (19.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.00%) Python
2 52 (41.27%) SQL
3 31 (24.60%) Java
4 25 (19.84%) PL/SQL
4 25 (19.84%) Shell Script
5 20 (15.87%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.52%) Apex Code
6 12 (9.52%) Bicep
7 9 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.35%) C#
9 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.59%) SOQL
11 2 (1.59%) SOSL
12 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) Accessibility
1 11 (8.73%) QA
2 8 (6.35%) GDPR
3 5 (3.97%) WCAG
4 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (16.67%) Docker
2 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.38%) RACF
4 2 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (57.14%) Terraform
2 25 (19.84%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (13.49%) Kubernetes
4 16 (12.70%) Grafana
5 13 (10.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.52%) Ansible
7 3 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 26 (20.63%) Oracle
2 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.11%) Okta
4 12 (9.52%) Salesforce
5 9 (7.14%) Splunk
6 8 (6.35%) Ab Initio
7 6 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.97%) Google
8 5 (3.97%) SolarWinds
9 4 (3.17%) F5
9 4 (3.17%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.38%) Cisco
10 3 (2.38%) Databricks
11 2 (1.59%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.59%) IBM