DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > Wales

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in Wales is £70,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.094% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70,050 - -
25th Percentile £70,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,125 - -
90th Percentile £71,350 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -16.22% +27.59%

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 1,999 515 1,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 86.26% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,320 349 1,528
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,916 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,220 £77,500 £69,860
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 June 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 - 2 £70,500 - 2
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 30 June 2026, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

DevOps Platform 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google