DevOps Engineer Jobs in Wales

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Wales is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 17 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.57% 0.75% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.80% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £50,500 - £46,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £22,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £68,497
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -23.35% +14.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £71,060
90th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £79,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

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 1,293 2,123 1,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.99% 93.11% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 832 1,522 821
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -7.24%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,475 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Wales.

Salary trend 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 5 July 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 +38 9 £57,500 +150.00% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Terraform
3 6 (66.67%) Docker
3 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) .NET
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (55.56%) Salesforce
4 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (44.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
5 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
5 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (33.33%) Pega
6 3 (33.33%) QA
6 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (33.33%) CRM
6 3 (33.33%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) GitHub
1 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) CRM
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Guidewire
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Pega
2 3 (33.33%) VMware