DevOps Job Trends in Bridgend

DevOps
South Wales > Bridgend

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bridgend requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 16 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 28.07% - 9.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 39.02% - 9.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £58,125 - -
90th Percentile £60,500 - -
South Wales median annual salary £57,500 £64,125 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.33% +2.60% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bridgend

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41 24 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgend 71.93% 85.71% 99.02%
Number of salaries quoted 30 6 44
10th Percentile £29,850 £30,000 £37,159
25th Percentile £38,438 £30,188 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £36,250 £40,553
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -10.61% +17.54%
75th Percentile £57,500 £40,000 £44,813
90th Percentile £60,000 £41,875 £64,625
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bridgend.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Bridgend

DevOps
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend 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 15 (93.75%) Azure
1 15 (93.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Azure API Management
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 10 (62.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) git-flow
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.25%) Express.js
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) koa
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (62.50%) AI
3 10 (62.50%) Software Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Data Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (12.50%) FinOps
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) CQRS
6 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.25%) Kanban
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys