DevOps Contracts in Cardiff

DevOps
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 17 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.45% 8.21% 18.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.04% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 31
10th Percentile £174 £356 £475
25th Percentile £209 £375 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -44.46% -6.14% +4.18%
75th Percentile £405 £667 £600
90th Percentile £543 £685 £650
South Wales median daily rate £305 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -43.17% -8.28% +2.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 154 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 92.17% 74.40% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 126 200
10th Percentile £191 £143 £190
25th Percentile £300 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £650 £629 £639
South Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - £12.87 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.54 £13.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% +12.92% -15.12%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cardiff over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (21.05%) WebLogic
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) JBoss
3 1 (5.26%) nginx
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.26%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub
6 4 (21.05%) OCI
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (10.53%) PaaS
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
9 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
9 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Metadata
2 3 (15.79%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) Subversion
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.26%) tSQLt
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 5 (26.32%) Designer
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Interaction Designer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead Designer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) GCP Architect
6 1 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (10.53%) FHIR
3 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) JWT
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) NHS
2 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
1 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 4 (21.05%) Business Case
3 4 (21.05%) Coaching
3 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
3 4 (21.05%) Data Science
3 4 (21.05%) Interaction Design
3 4 (21.05%) Metadata Management
3 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (21.05%) User Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
1 3 (15.79%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) CSSLP
5 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) HL7
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Argo
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Google
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Databricks
4 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.53%) Cloudera
5 2 (10.53%) RedGate
6 1 (5.26%) IBM
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat