DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Wales is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 69 71
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 16 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.52% 1.27% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 1.30% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 22 8 23
10th Percentile £51,375 £38,750 £55,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,274 £57,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £68,497
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -25.18% +5.38%
75th Percentile £58,438 £56,875 £72,433
90th Percentile £59,875 £62,500 £76,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% -9.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 742 1,229 929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.09% 97.39% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 550 783 732
10th Percentile £25,438 £28,125 £27,920
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -2.62% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,493
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,252 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 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
South Wales +24 22 £55,000 +16.03% 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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 22 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (90.91%) Terraform
3 18 (81.82%) Azure
3 18 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (77.27%) .NET
4 17 (77.27%) Software Delivery
4 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
5 16 (72.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 16 (72.73%) TeamCity
6 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
6 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (68.18%) SQL
7 12 (54.55%) AI
7 12 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (36.36%) Docker
9 7 (31.82%) AWS
9 7 (31.82%) GitHub
9 7 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
11 5 (22.73%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
11 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (22.73%) Salesforce
11 5 (22.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (18.18%) Ansible
12 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (18.18%) CRM
12 4 (18.18%) IIS
12 4 (18.18%) Microsoft

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (18.18%) IIS
3 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
1 18 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 7 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 12 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Octopus Deploy
1 16 (72.73%) TeamCity
2 5 (22.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (13.64%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (54.55%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
1 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (77.27%) Software Delivery
3 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (54.55%) AI
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) CRM
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Static Application Security Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (9.09%) Server Management
8 2 (9.09%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Salesforce
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Pega
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Guidewire