DevSecOps Job Trends in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 4 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% 0.26% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.28% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £93,250 -
25th Percentile - £94,375 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +93.80% -46.09%
75th Percentile - £99,375 £76,189
90th Percentile - £99,750 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £74,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +34.23% -2.30% -18.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

DevSecOps 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 750 705 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.27% 92.40% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 460 294 581
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,851 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,312 £64,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,751 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,575 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +40.99% -30.91% +4.76%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Trainee
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft