DevOps Job Trends in Edinburgh

DevOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 42 96 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.00% 11.10% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 11.71% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 31 40 72
10th Percentile £24,000 £48,750 £51,325
25th Percentile £43,125 £53,750 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +0.72% +6.35%
75th Percentile £65,625 £90,944 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £146,300 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.26% +6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

DevOps 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 713 820 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.84% 94.80% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 487 378 887
10th Percentile £29,900 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,625 £76,840 £73,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,750 £93,500
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% -7.92% -4.55%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

DevOps
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
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 3 (7.14%) Apache
1 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) GCP
3 9 (21.43%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) AWS
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (7.14%) Dataform
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Run
7 2 (4.76%) Firebase
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Apigee
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.38%) Google Play
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) AMQP
1 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Big Data
2 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 3 (7.14%) Metadata
3 2 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) fastlane
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.76%) Xcode
4 1 (2.38%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.38%) Appium
4 1 (2.38%) Crashlytics
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) ERwin
4 1 (2.38%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Gradle
4 1 (2.38%) JMeter
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.38%) TestRail
4 1 (2.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Junior
4 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Junior DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Instructor
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) QC Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) .NET
1 2 (4.76%) Great Expectations
1 2 (4.76%) React
1 2 (4.76%) REST
1 2 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (2.38%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (2.38%) Android SDK
2 1 (2.38%) Core Data
2 1 (2.38%) Django
2 1 (2.38%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.38%) iOS SDK
2 1 (2.38%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.38%) Node.js
2 1 (2.38%) Playwright
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
2 1 (2.38%) Retrofit
2 1 (2.38%) SOAP
2 1 (2.38%) SwiftUI
2 1 (2.38%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
1 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.05%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.90%) Analytics
6 5 (11.90%) API Integration
6 5 (11.90%) Observability
7 4 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Kanban
7 4 (9.52%) OWASP
7 4 (9.52%) Scrum
7 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) AI
8 3 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.38%) C#
4 1 (2.38%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) Scala
4 1 (2.38%) Swift
4 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) NCSC
2 3 (7.14%) WCAG
3 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Pega
3 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Apple
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Salesforce