DevOps Contract Job Trends in West Wales

DevOps
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 7.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
Wales median daily rate £418 £270 £425
% change year-on-year +54.63% -36.47% -27.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34 21 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 87.18% 70.00% 72.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 11
10th Percentile £400 £125 £180
25th Percentile £413 £313 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
75th Percentile £481 £535 £394
90th Percentile £498 £555 £500
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £423
% change year-on-year -2.94% +0.59% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £17.94 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.50 - -
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £22.50 £29.83
% change year-on-year -19.20% -24.58% +58.56%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

DevOps job vacancy trend in West Wales

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Swansea - 3 £475 - 4
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks