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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 228 170 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 21.65% 15.17% 18.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.31% 15.76% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 26 84 162
10th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £46,256
25th Percentile £26,688 £52,500 £56,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -6.84% +8.58%
75th Percentile £76,829 £80,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £117,236
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.95% +7.27%

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 901 1,079 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.57% 96.25% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 383 406 780
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,125 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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 - -
DevOps
Scotland

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 17 (7.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (7.02%) Confluence
3 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) CICS
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 37 (16.23%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.75%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 217 (95.18%) Azure
2 158 (69.30%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (54.39%) GitHub
4 72 (31.58%) GitHub Copilot
5 65 (28.51%) Snowflake
6 51 (22.37%) dbt
7 47 (20.61%) Entra ID
8 44 (19.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (16.23%) OCI
10 36 (15.79%) Power Platform
11 34 (14.91%) AWS
12 28 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.58%) Datadog
17 14 (6.14%) Azure Event Grid
17 14 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
18 13 (5.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) Firewall
2 6 (2.63%) DNS
2 6 (2.63%) LAN
2 6 (2.63%) WAN
3 5 (2.19%) VPN
4 4 (1.75%) BGP
4 4 (1.75%) MPLS
4 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.75%) Wireless
5 3 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.88%) Broadband
6 2 (0.88%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (15.79%) Power BI
3 29 (12.72%) Tableau
4 14 (6.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (4.82%) Metadata
6 9 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.07%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.75%) Redis
10 2 (0.88%) DB2
10 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (25.44%) JIRA
2 39 (17.11%) Jenkins
3 37 (16.23%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (7.46%) Git
5 2 (0.88%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.44%) JMeter
6 1 (0.44%) Locust
General
1 197 (86.40%) Finance
2 70 (30.70%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.53%) Marketing
5 4 (1.75%) Front Office
6 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.88%) Games
7 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.88%) Law
7 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (38.16%) Senior
2 57 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 43 (18.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 20 (8.77%) Analyst
7 14 (6.14%) Development Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.70%) Applications Support Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Senior Development Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (1.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.37%) RESTful
2 44 (19.30%) SOAP
3 42 (18.42%) OAuth
4 34 (14.91%) JSON
5 31 (13.60%) OAuth2
6 24 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (10.53%) REST
7 20 (8.77%) XML
8 17 (7.46%) SAML
9 15 (6.58%) .NET
10 14 (6.14%) ADO
11 11 (4.82%) GraphQL
11 11 (4.82%) OpenAPI
11 11 (4.82%) Swagger
12 8 (3.51%) YAML
13 4 (1.75%) Django
14 3 (1.32%) React
15 2 (0.88%) Kafka
15 2 (0.88%) Spring Boot
15 2 (0.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 81 (35.53%) Product Ownership
2 71 (31.14%) Cloud Native
3 37 (16.23%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (9.65%) Onboarding
5 12 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.07%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.75%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
1 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 4 (1.75%) Unix
2 4 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (85.53%) Asset Management
1 195 (85.53%) Coaching
2 171 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 169 (74.12%) Agile
4 116 (50.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (48.25%) Test Automation
6 106 (46.49%) AI
7 96 (42.11%) Observability
8 75 (32.89%) Analytics
9 66 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (27.19%) Clean Code
11 61 (26.75%) Mentoring
12 60 (26.32%) Data Modelling
13 57 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
13 57 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
14 54 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (20.18%) Migration
16 39 (17.11%) RBAC
17 38 (16.67%) API Integration
17 38 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 121 (53.07%) Python
2 109 (47.81%) SQL
3 54 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 40 (17.54%) Java
5 37 (16.23%) PL/SQL
5 37 (16.23%) Shell Script
6 24 (10.53%) Apex Code
7 18 (7.89%) Bash
7 18 (7.89%) Bicep
8 17 (7.46%) JavaScript
9 12 (5.26%) C#
10 7 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.88%) SOQL
11 2 (0.88%) SOSL
11 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (2.19%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.21%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.58%) QA
3 14 (6.14%) GDPR
4 7 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.35%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.28%) Docker
3 10 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) RACF
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 126 (55.26%) Terraform
2 37 (16.23%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.65%) Grafana
5 19 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (3.95%) Ansible
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 55 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.23%) Oracle
3 24 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 20 (8.77%) Okta
5 18 (7.89%) Ab Initio
6 9 (3.95%) Splunk
7 7 (3.07%) Databricks
8 6 (2.63%) IBM
9 5 (2.19%) Google
9 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.19%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.75%) Charles River
10 4 (1.75%) F5
10 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.88%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.44%) Xamarin