DevOps Jobs in South Wales

DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 58 85 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.56% 6.70% 14.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 9.80% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 51 44 79
10th Percentile £49,250 - £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £23,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,750 £65,000 £68,497
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,701 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +3.09% -8.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,332 867 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 81.72% 68.38% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 937 569 498
10th Percentile £21,620 £30,000 £28,588
25th Percentile - £35,700 £37,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,873 £72,500 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £29,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -35.56% - -10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in South Wales

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 DevOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Cardiff -1 20 £60,000 +41.18% 38
Newport -7 20 £73,000 +5.85% 7
Bridgend +8 14 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Gwent - 3 £68,500 - 10
Monmouthshire 0 2 £66,750 +2.69%
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
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 5 (8.62%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (6.90%) IIS
3 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
4 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 11 (18.97%) GitHub
5 9 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (12.07%) Serverless
7 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.90%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.17%) GCP
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
1 11 (18.97%) Octopus Deploy
1 11 (18.97%) TeamCity
2 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (6.90%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (5.17%) Appium
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) JMeter
5 3 (5.17%) JUnit
5 3 (5.17%) Maven
5 3 (5.17%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.17%) Selenium
5 3 (5.17%) TestNG
6 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 9 (15.52%) Finance
1 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Retail
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Architect
2 15 (25.86%) Software Architect
3 11 (18.97%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) QA Leader
8 2 (3.45%) Site Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Middleware
2 14 (24.14%) .NET
3 4 (6.90%) Node.js
4 3 (5.17%) REST
4 3 (5.17%) SOAP
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.45%) Django
5 2 (3.45%) React
5 2 (3.45%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.72%) Flask
6 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.72%) Jest
6 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.72%) koa
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth
6 1 (1.72%) Playwright
6 1 (1.72%) pytest
6 1 (1.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Virtual Team
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
1 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Agile
2 29 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (39.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (37.93%) Mentoring
5 17 (29.31%) Configuration Management
5 17 (29.31%) Design Patterns
5 17 (29.31%) Open Source
6 15 (25.86%) Computer Science
6 15 (25.86%) SDLC
6 15 (25.86%) UML
6 15 (25.86%) Waterfall
7 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.97%) Software Delivery
9 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
11 7 (12.07%) CRM
11 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (10.34%) Microservices
12 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) SQL
3 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.34%) C#
5 5 (8.62%) Java
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.17%) Bash
7 3 (5.17%) Groovy
8 2 (3.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 16 (27.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (25.86%) Chartered Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 9 (15.52%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) Grafana
3 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) Argo
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Salesforce
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Pega
4 4 (6.90%) VMware
5 3 (5.17%) Guidewire
6 2 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) Qualys