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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 39 119 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 5.07% 8.12% 12.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 10.37% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 38 65 72
10th Percentile £46,677 £32,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £71,188 £70,000 £68,497
90th Percentile £73,000 £75,473 £78,750
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -

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 634 1,148 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.44% 78.36% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 409 748 568
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £45,498
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £66,750 £61,299 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £49,875 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.83% - -5.26%

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 13 May 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 13 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
Cardiff -3 17 £64,125 +2.60% 31
Newport -4 9 £73,000 +14.06% 19
Gwent - 7 £52,592 - 6
Monmouthshire - 6 £65,000 -
Bridgend +15 1 £50,000 -4.76% 3
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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) AWS
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.82%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.13%) SaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.56%) dbt
9 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (15.38%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) JIRA
3 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 3 (7.69%) Selenium
6 2 (5.13%) Appium
6 2 (5.13%) JMeter
6 2 (5.13%) JUnit
6 2 (5.13%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (5.13%) Maven
6 2 (5.13%) TestNG
7 1 (2.56%) Grunt
7 1 (2.56%) NUnit
7 1 (2.56%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.69%) Retail
4 2 (5.13%) Welsh Language
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (15.38%) Architect
6 5 (12.82%) Backend Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Backend Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Software Architect
7 3 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Django
2 5 (12.82%) FastAPI
2 5 (12.82%) Flask
2 5 (12.82%) GraphQL
2 5 (12.82%) Keycloak
2 5 (12.82%) Middleware
2 5 (12.82%) OAuth
2 5 (12.82%) pytest
2 5 (12.82%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) SQLAlchemy
2 5 (12.82%) WebSockets
3 4 (10.26%) .NET
3 4 (10.26%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
5 2 (5.13%) React
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) SOAP
6 1 (2.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) CI/CD
3 13 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 12 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (28.21%) Scrum
6 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
7 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
7 8 (20.51%) Open Source
8 7 (17.95%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
9 6 (15.38%) Kanban
9 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.38%) SDLC
10 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
10 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
10 5 (12.82%) UML
10 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.13%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.13%) CSPO
6 2 (5.13%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Grafana
2 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Mitel
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.56%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce