DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Wales is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 48 79
Rank change year-on-year -37 +31 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 51 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.73% 2.28% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 2.67% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 9
10th Percentile £36,457 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -37.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,600 £60,500 £56,500
UK median annual salary £71,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% +3.70% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Wales with a recognized job title 2,742 712 1,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 85.37% 91.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 538 1,085
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -1.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
South Wales -24 42 £45,000 -18.18% 11
West Wales - 9 £45,000 - 1
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 2 September 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (43.14%) Azure
3 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
4 19 (37.25%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (27.45%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (27.45%) Terraform
6 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
7 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
7 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
8 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (19.61%) GCP
9 10 (19.61%) Google
9 10 (19.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (19.61%) Python
10 7 (13.73%) Agile
10 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (13.73%) Web Operations
11 6 (11.76%) AWS
11 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (11.76%) Linux
11 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (11.76%) SQL
12 5 (9.80%) Bash
12 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Engineering
12 5 (9.80%) Data Management
12 5 (9.80%) Git
12 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
12 5 (9.80%) Java

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) GCP
3 10 (19.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.96%) IaaS
6 1 (1.96%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
1 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (19.61%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Welsh Language
5 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Aviation
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) Terraform
2 3 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (3.92%) YAML
4 1 (1.96%) Kafka
4 1 (1.96%) Next.js
4 1 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.73%) Agile
5 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.73%) Web Operations
6 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Engineering
7 5 (9.80%) Data Management
7 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
7 5 (9.80%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Containerisation
8 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) SQL
3 5 (9.80%) Bash
3 5 (9.80%) Java
3 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Google
2 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft