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 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 59 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 +32 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 24 3 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.47% 0.56% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 0.63% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 15
10th Percentile £41,500 - £22,000
25th Percentile - - £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.83%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £72,433
90th Percentile £60,700 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 1,517 480 1,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.22% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 985 304 1,269
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,170 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,217 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,400 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 - 18 £53,000 - 6
West Wales -7 6 £45,000 - 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Git
4 7 (29.17%) Terraform
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) Docker
6 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
6 5 (20.83%) Python
7 4 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (16.67%) Bash
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.50%) .NET
8 3 (12.50%) AWS
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) SDLC
8 3 (12.50%) Serverless
9 2 (8.33%) Ansible

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 13 (54.17%) Azure
1 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) git-flow
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) Next.js
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
7 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (8.33%) FinOps
7 2 (8.33%) Observability
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft