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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 20 65 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.36% 9.53% 11.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.49% 12.20% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 19 55 50
10th Percentile £48,732 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,125 £70,000 £71,938
90th Percentile £73,043 £75,473 £78,750
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +12.24%

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 174 533 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.16% 78.15% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 126 477 388
10th Percentile £24,296 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,219 £37,500 £40,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,111 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £66,313 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%

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 21 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 (10.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) Serverless
4 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (5.00%) GCP
9 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
9 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Appium
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (10.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) TestNG
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Grunt
4 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Django
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Sass
4 1 (5.00%) Symfony
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Coaching
6 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.00%) Open Source
6 3 (15.00%) SOLID
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Groovy
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Mitel
2 1 (5.00%) Pega
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce