Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Cardiff

Senior Development Operations Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in Cardiff is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.21% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £71,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 785 245 620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 97.61% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 567 175 510
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,085 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +9.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,408 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £74,703 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £53,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.92% +9.47% -5.00%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
1 10 (100.00%) Google
1 10 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 10 (100.00%) GCP
1 10 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Google