Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Senior Development Operations
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in South Wales is £713, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.72% - 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £646 - £640
25th Percentile £659 - £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £646
75th Percentile £759 - £649
90th Percentile £769 - £650
Wales median daily rate £713 - £646

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 392 239 331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 93.73% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 174 255
10th Percentile £250 £160 £151
25th Percentile £336 £232 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £563
90th Percentile £650 £621 £638
Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 24 20
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.68
25th Percentile £14.63 £20.12 £14.99
Median hourly rate £21.25 £24.59 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +8.85% +24.53%
75th Percentile £25.77 £41.25 £54.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.56% +18.42% +4.74%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in South Wales

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in South Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in South Wales

Senior DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport - 2 £675 - 1
Cardiff - 1 £750 -
Senior DevOps
Wales

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, Senior DevOps 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 South Wales region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) MSTest
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Product Planning
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce