DevOps Jobs in South Wales

DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 118 149 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.13% 12.90% 14.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 13.45% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 66 79 155
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,000 £33,298
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £40,493
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,497 £62,750
90th Percentile £74,966 £80,500 £76,500
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £50,552 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +1.10% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,151 1,108 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.27% 95.93% 93.10%
Number of salaries quoted 744 586 867
10th Percentile £28,290 £28,750 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,700 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,496 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -9.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,299 £62,997 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.53%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in South Wales.

Salary trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Cardiff +1 67 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Bridgend -9 45 £52,500 +2.44% 2
Newport -11 6 £64,000 -1.54%
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 27 (22.88%) ArcGIS
1 27 (22.88%) GeoServer
2 4 (3.39%) Confluence
3 3 (2.54%) CMS
4 2 (1.69%) Apache
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (72.88%) Azure
2 46 (38.98%) AWS
3 38 (32.20%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.78%) GCP
6 6 (5.08%) SaaS
7 4 (3.39%) Serverless
8 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.54%) GitHub
8 3 (2.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.54%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.69%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.69%) dbt
9 2 (1.69%) Firebase
9 2 (1.69%) npm
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) MQTT
2 1 (0.85%) SSL
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.88%) GIS
1 27 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (22.88%) QGIS
2 9 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.08%) Power BI
5 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.39%) MySQL
5 4 (3.39%) Redis
6 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.54%) Looker
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.47%) Git
3 7 (5.93%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.08%) JIRA
4 6 (5.08%) JMeter
4 6 (5.08%) Postman
4 6 (5.08%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.54%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.54%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (2.54%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.69%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.69%) Grunt
6 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.69%) webpack
7 1 (0.85%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.85%) GitLab
7 1 (0.85%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.85%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.32%) Finance
3 7 (5.93%) Banking
4 6 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.24%) Legal
6 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.69%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (27.12%) Software Engineer
2 29 (24.58%) Senior
3 21 (17.80%) Developer
4 17 (14.41%) Lead
4 17 (14.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.08%) QA Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) QA Leader
7 6 (5.08%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Development Team Leader
8 5 (4.24%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Software Development Team Leader
8 5 (4.24%) Software Team Leader
8 5 (4.24%) Team Leader
9 4 (3.39%) Software Manager
9 4 (3.39%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (38.14%) .NET
2 32 (27.12%) React
3 27 (22.88%) Leaflet
3 27 (22.88%) OpenLayers
3 27 (22.88%) PostGIS
4 26 (22.03%) CSS
5 25 (21.19%) .NET Core
6 12 (10.17%) Node.js
7 6 (5.08%) HTML
8 5 (4.24%) Django
9 4 (3.39%) Express.js
9 4 (3.39%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.39%) Vue
10 3 (2.54%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.54%) REST
10 3 (2.54%) RESTful
11 2 (1.69%) HTML5
11 2 (1.69%) JSON
11 2 (1.69%) Kafka
11 2 (1.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.08%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Tandem
5 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.54%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.41%) Linux
2 6 (5.08%) Android
2 6 (5.08%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.41%) Agile
2 43 (36.44%) Software Engineering
3 41 (34.75%) Actionable Insight
4 28 (23.73%) CI/CD
5 27 (22.88%) Web Development
6 21 (17.80%) Scrum
7 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (16.10%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.56%) Microservices
10 14 (11.86%) Migration
10 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (9.32%) Unit Testing
12 10 (8.47%) Analytics
12 10 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.47%) ETL
13 9 (7.63%) Change Management
13 9 (7.63%) Clean Code
13 9 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (7.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
2 38 (32.20%) Python
3 36 (30.51%) C#
4 14 (11.86%) SQL
5 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.08%) Bash
7 4 (3.39%) C
7 4 (3.39%) Go
7 4 (3.39%) Ruby
8 3 (2.54%) Groovy
8 3 (2.54%) Java
8 3 (2.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.85%) Bicep
9 1 (0.85%) C++
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (34.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) Degree
4 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (16.10%) Terraform
2 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.32%) Ansible
4 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.69%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Kibana
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (22.88%) ESRI
2 18 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.93%) Google
4 6 (5.08%) MuleSoft
4 6 (5.08%) OutSystems
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) Cadence
7 1 (0.85%) Databricks
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) Xamarin