DevOps Job Trends in South Wales

DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 55 71 70
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 6.69% 10.63% 12.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 13.08% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 50 63 56
10th Percentile £49,500 £23,750 £43,538
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,875 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,629 £86,920 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Process & 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 629 543 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 76.52% 81.29% 92.50%
Number of salaries quoted 444 292 386
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,839
25th Percentile £31,125 £36,250 £40,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,467
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.16% +0.93%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -2.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in South Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 December 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 0 29 £60,000 +17.07% 13
Bridgend - 18 £55,000 - 2
Newport -12 7 £53,500 +10.88% 2
Torfaen - 1 £42,000 -
DevOps
Wales

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 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.82%) IIS
1 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 31 (56.36%) Azure
2 27 (49.09%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
4 6 (10.91%) GCP
5 4 (7.27%) dbt
5 4 (7.27%) GitHub
5 4 (7.27%) PaaS
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.45%) Azure API Management
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.45%) Pulumi
6 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) GIS
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (21.82%) TeamCity
2 5 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (7.27%) Selenium
3 4 (7.27%) WebDriver
4 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 3 (5.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.64%) git-flow
5 2 (3.64%) GitLab
5 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.64%) JMeter
5 2 (3.64%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.82%) Locust
6 1 (1.82%) Moq
6 1 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Retail
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 6 (10.91%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Consultant
5 5 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Tester
8 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Site Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (7.27%) Web Services
3 3 (5.45%) Django
4 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.64%) Playwright
4 2 (3.64%) REST
4 2 (3.64%) RESTful
5 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.82%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.82%) Express.js
5 1 (1.82%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.82%) HTML5
5 1 (1.82%) Jest
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) koa
5 1 (1.82%) Node.js
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.82%) OpenID
5 1 (1.82%) PySpark
5 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) CI/CD
2 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (30.91%) Agile
3 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.45%) Software Delivery
5 13 (23.64%) AI
6 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
7 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.73%) Observability
8 7 (12.73%) Scrum
9 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.09%) BDD
10 5 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (9.09%) User Experience
11 4 (7.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 4 (7.27%) Event-Driven
11 4 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (7.27%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) SQL
2 13 (23.64%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.36%) Python
4 6 (10.91%) C#
5 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.27%) Apex Code
7 3 (5.45%) Java
8 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) HL7
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.82%) Ansible
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) ESRI
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Pega
5 1 (1.82%) Qualys
5 1 (1.82%) VMware