DevOps Engineer Jobs in Wales

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Wales is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 16 29 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.78% 1.76% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 2.05% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 23
10th Percentile - £45,875 £37,600
25th Percentile £22,000 £59,312 £42,182
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £71,749 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +19.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £87,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,892 1,416 1,822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 85.87% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 806 1,147
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,391 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -3 14 £52,500 -30.00% 1
West Wales +10 2 £52,500 +16.67%
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (81.25%) Terraform
3 10 (62.50%) Ansible
3 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 9 (56.25%) Docker
4 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
4 9 (56.25%) Linux
4 9 (56.25%) Azure
5 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (43.75%) Software Delivery
7 6 (37.50%) AWS
7 6 (37.50%) Windows
7 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (31.25%) SQL
8 5 (31.25%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) SaaS
9 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
10 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
10 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
10 3 (18.75%) Microservices
10 3 (18.75%) GCP
10 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
10 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
10 3 (18.75%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership

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 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
2 3 (18.75%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Software Delivery
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (6.25%) Coaching
8 1 (6.25%) Customer-Centricity
8 1 (6.25%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Groovy
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Terraform
2 10 (62.50%) Ansible
2 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) VMware