Senior DevOps Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior 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 91 111 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 4 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.44% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.27% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile - £65,765 -
25th Percentile £70,097 £67,664 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -16.97% +3.03%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,700 £90,000
90th Percentile - £73,180 -
Scotland median annual salary £71,991 £71,538 £87,500
% change year-on-year +0.63% -18.24% +6.06%

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%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Go
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Non-Blocking Code
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Senior 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Non-Blocking Code
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform