DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Development Operations Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £646, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.52% - 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £535 - £641
25th Percentile £567 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £724 - -
90th Percentile £755 - -
South Wales median daily rate £675 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 251 158 222
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.18% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 128 186
10th Percentile £249 £177 £159
25th Percentile £305 £248 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £405 £429
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -5.66% -0.29%
75th Percentile £502 £538 £540
90th Percentile £648 £604 £618
South Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 5
10th Percentile - £19.88 £11.32
25th Percentile £12.21 £21.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.86 £23.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.71% +72.22% -8.30%
75th Percentile £19.69 £27.25 £18.00
90th Percentile £21.00 £40.63 £39.45
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £24.59 £22.59
% change year-on-year -13.58% +8.85% +24.53%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Cardiff

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Cardiff

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 31 March 2026, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce