DevOps Contracts in Wales

DevOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 26 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.48% 6.58% 11.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 8.36% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 47
10th Percentile £180 £356 £450
25th Percentile £224 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -46.87% -1.37% +6.00%
75th Percentile £368 £650 £600
90th Percentile £552 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.76% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -0.76% +24.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Wales -1 17 £305 -48.00% 45
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (10.53%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub
6 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (15.79%) OCI
6 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (10.53%) PaaS
7 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Metadata
2 4 (21.05%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Subversion
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.26%) tSQLt
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 5 (26.32%) Designer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Interaction Designer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (15.79%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) FHIR
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) JWT
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) NHS
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Data Science
4 5 (26.32%) Metadata Management
5 4 (21.05%) Business Case
5 4 (21.05%) Coaching
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Data Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Interaction Design
5 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) User Experience
6 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (15.79%) CRM
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C#
1 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) Master's Degree
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.26%) CSSLP
6 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) HL7
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) 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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Google
3 4 (21.05%) Databricks
4 3 (15.79%) Cloudera
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.26%) IBM
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.26%) RedGate