CI/CD Contracts in Scotland

CI/CD
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 128 234 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.97% 8.68% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.39% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 175 236
10th Percentile £400 £414 £413
25th Percentile £421 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% +12.64%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £575
90th Percentile £634 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £61.50 £42.65
25th Percentile £60.25 £62.91 £44.01
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.28 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +37.03% -19.75%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.64 £49.89
90th Percentile - £69.06 £50.42
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +0.93% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,492 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.17% 92.43% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,739 2,252
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 60 £498 -17.08% 31
Edinburgh 0 57 £489 +0.31% 28
Perthshire +5 1 - -
Lanarkshire +3 1 £460 -21.10% 16
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.56%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 78 (60.94%) AWS
2 33 (25.78%) OpenShift
3 29 (22.66%) Amazon S3
4 28 (21.88%) Serverless
5 26 (20.31%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (19.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (12.50%) Azure
8 13 (10.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 9 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.47%) GCP
12 6 (4.69%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (4.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 6 (4.69%) IaaS
12 6 (4.69%) npm
13 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (3.91%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) Firewall
2 4 (3.13%) Internet
3 3 (2.34%) NAS
3 3 (2.34%) SAN
4 2 (1.56%) Modbus
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (8.59%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.03%) Oracle Database
6 7 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.91%) GIS
8 5 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.91%) MySQL
8 5 (3.91%) Power BI
9 4 (3.13%) Big Data
9 4 (3.13%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.56%) DB2
11 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 41 (32.03%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.63%) Git
3 15 (11.72%) GitLab
4 10 (7.81%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.25%) JIRA
6 7 (5.47%) Maven
7 6 (4.69%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.69%) Gradle
7 6 (4.69%) JUnit
7 6 (4.69%) Selenium
7 6 (4.69%) webpack
8 5 (3.91%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.91%) Mockito
8 5 (3.91%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.56%) CMake
9 2 (1.56%) Subversion
9 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.78%) Gatling
10 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (28.91%) Public Sector
2 18 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.50%) Finance
4 14 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.47%) Banking
6 6 (4.69%) Back Office
6 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Electronics
8 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 51 (39.84%) Developer
2 24 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 12 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.59%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (8.59%) Full Stack Engineer
5 10 (7.81%) Lead
6 9 (7.03%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Architect
7 8 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Senior
10 5 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Site Manager
10 5 (3.91%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (32.03%) REST
2 39 (30.47%) Spring
3 32 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 31 (24.22%) CSS
5 29 (22.66%) HTML
6 26 (20.31%) AWS CDK
6 26 (20.31%) React
7 20 (15.63%) RESTful
8 16 (12.50%) Node.js
9 15 (11.72%) AngularJS
10 12 (9.38%) OAuth
11 11 (8.59%) JPA
12 9 (7.03%) Kafka
12 9 (7.03%) OAuth2
13 8 (6.25%) PostGIS
13 8 (6.25%) SOAP
14 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (5.47%) Spring Security
15 6 (4.69%) .NET
15 6 (4.69%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Public Cloud
2 13 (10.16%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.13%) Device Driver
6 4 (3.13%) IoT
6 4 (3.13%) PCIe
6 4 (3.13%) Verilog
6 4 (3.13%) VHDL
7 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.56%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.44%) Linux
2 16 (12.50%) Unix
3 9 (7.03%) Windows
4 8 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (3.91%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.13%) VMS
7 4 (3.13%) VxWorks
7 4 (3.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.78%) Android
8 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (58.59%) Agile
2 48 (37.50%) DevOps
3 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 35 (27.34%) Microservices
5 33 (25.78%) Test Automation
6 30 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (21.88%) Full Stack Development
8 22 (17.19%) SDLC
9 21 (16.41%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (16.41%) Scrum
10 18 (14.06%) Migration
11 17 (13.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (13.28%) Containerisation
11 17 (13.28%) Roadmaps
11 17 (13.28%) TDD
12 16 (12.50%) Analytics
12 16 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 15 (11.72%) Human-Centred Design
13 15 (11.72%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.56%) Java
2 39 (30.47%) SQL
3 38 (29.69%) Python
4 34 (26.56%) JavaScript
5 30 (23.44%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.50%) Bash
7 14 (10.94%) Shell Script
8 12 (9.38%) Groovy
9 7 (5.47%) C
9 7 (5.47%) Scala
10 6 (4.69%) C#
10 6 (4.69%) Embedded C
10 6 (4.69%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.69%) Perl
10 6 (4.69%) Ruby
11 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.56%) C++
13 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.56%) Degree
2 2 (1.56%) ISEB
2 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 14 (10.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (3.13%) MISRA
3 4 (3.13%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (26.56%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Firmware
3 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.19%) Terraform
3 20 (15.63%) Grafana
4 19 (14.84%) Ansible
5 10 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.25%) Kibana
7 6 (4.69%) Zipkin
8 3 (2.34%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.78%) Argo
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Oracle
2 4 (3.13%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.13%) Intel
3 3 (2.34%) Databricks
3 3 (2.34%) Veritas
4 2 (1.56%) Greenplum
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.78%) Confluent
5 1 (0.78%) Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Informatica
5 1 (0.78%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.78%) VMware