DevOps Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Development Operations Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in South Wales is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 87 89
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 16 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.13% 1.09% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 1.20% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 9
10th Percentile - - £54,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £22,000 £68,497
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £72,433 £78,750
90th Percentile - - £87,500
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £71,749
% change year-on-year -4.76% -26.83% +19.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 647 1,332 1,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.27% 90.86% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 408 882 583
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £30,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £36,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,244 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +2.76% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,988
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £49,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.89% - -5.26%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in South Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in South Wales.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in South Wales

DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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
Bridgend +61 1 £50,000 - 2
DevOps Engineer
Wales

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Guidewire
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Guidewire
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) VMware