DevOps Jobs in Cardiff

DevOps
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 18 67 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.63% 9.97% 11.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 12.57% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 17 57 49
10th Percentile £48,714 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,586 £78,000 £77,750
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +13.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 169 533 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.37% 79.32% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 121 479 399
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,069 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,685 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -1.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £66,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% -10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cardiff.

Salary trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cardiff over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (11.11%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.56%) dbt
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.56%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Appium
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) JMeter
3 2 (11.11%) JUnit
3 2 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
3 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
3 2 (11.11%) TestNG
4 1 (5.56%) Grunt
4 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Welsh Language
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Node.js
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 3 (16.67%) React
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) Django
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Sass
4 1 (5.56%) Symfony
4 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) IT Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) SOLID
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Mitel
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Google