FinOps Job Trends in Edinburgh

FinOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring FinOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 93 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -
Permanent jobs citing FinOps 13 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.09% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £60,249
75th Percentile £74,066 - £61,835
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,079 - £60,249
% change year-on-year - - -7.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

FinOps 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 965 953 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 80.96% 97.94% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 493 438 917
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £32,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £74,066 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £46,575 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.32% +4.76% -11.02%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

FinOps job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

FinOps
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 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
1 11 (84.62%) Entra ID
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (23.08%) Mimecast
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
1 1 (7.69%) Locust
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
2 11 (84.62%) AI
2 11 (84.62%) Analytics
2 11 (84.62%) Asset Management
2 11 (84.62%) Coaching
2 11 (84.62%) ITIL
2 11 (84.62%) Machine Learning
2 11 (84.62%) Technology Roadmap
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (61.54%) Information Security
5 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (38.46%) Business Strategy
6 5 (38.46%) Cost Management
6 5 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (38.46%) Log Analytics
6 5 (38.46%) User Experience
7 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) PowerShell
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 8 (61.54%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (38.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (23.08%) SCCM
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft