Azure DevOps Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 24 51
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 16 22 38
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.47% 6.21% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 23.40% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 33
10th Percentile £41,200 £42,500 £44,330
25th Percentile £50,200 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +1.56% +16.36%
75th Percentile £55,873 - £70,000
90th Percentile £60,600 £71,000 £70,759
Wales median annual salary £53,000 £58,796 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.86% -2.01% +30.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 321 94 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 29.48% 26.55% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 123 89 333
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £52,101
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +1.73% +4.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.43% +9.00% +11.11%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -21 11 £53,100 -8.05% 5
Bridgend - 3 £61,000 -
Cardiff -23 1 - - 7
Torfaen - 1 £42,000 -
Azure DevOps
Wales

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Functions
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) git-flow
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Moq
3 1 (6.25%) MSTest
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Developer
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) SEO Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (12.50%) SEO Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) FHIR
4 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (31.25%) AI
7 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 5 (31.25%) Microservices
7 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
7 5 (31.25%) SEO
7 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
8 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (25.00%) SOA
8 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) HL7
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle