DevOps Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 97 99
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 18 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.98% 1.18% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.23% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 35
10th Percentile - £50,000 £52,488
25th Percentile £70,097 £64,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -5.90% +25.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,433 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,019 £84,000
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £70,576 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% +0.82% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 849 1,464 2,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 95.87% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 420 1,034 1,200
10th Percentile £29,375 £32,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
3 7 (77.78%) Mentoring
4 6 (66.67%) Finance
4 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 6 (66.67%) Banking
5 5 (55.56%) AWS
5 5 (55.56%) Docker
5 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
5 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (44.44%) Non-Blocking Code
6 4 (44.44%) SaaS
6 4 (44.44%) Confluence
6 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (44.44%) Go
6 4 (44.44%) JIRA
6 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (44.44%) HTTP
7 3 (33.33%) Coaching
7 3 (33.33%) Culture Change
7 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
8 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
9 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 1 (11.11%) Serverless
9 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
9 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
9 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
9 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (11.11%) Java EE
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (44.44%) Non-Blocking Code
6 3 (33.33%) Coaching
6 3 (33.33%) Culture Change
6 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
7 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
8 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 1 (11.11%) GitOps
8 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Microservices
8 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Argo