Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Senior Development Operations Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £750, 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 36 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.38% - 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £640
25th Percentile £725 - £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £646
75th Percentile £775 - £649
90th Percentile - - £650
South Wales median daily rate £713 - £646

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%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 31 March 2026, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SonarCloud
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce