DevOps Jobs in Wales

DevOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 49 165 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.53% 8.30% 13.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 10.36% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43 106 129
10th Percentile £43,991 £30,000 £30,504
25th Percentile £46,629 £41,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £68,497
90th Percentile £71,548 £75,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 1,593 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 82.84% 80.09% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 404 1,049 806
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,700 £26,391
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,173 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,530 £55,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +4.60% -10.93% +2.92%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
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 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -8 36 £65,000 +4.00% 34
West Wales -2 12 £50,124 +0.25% 1
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 7 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (73.47%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) AWS
4 7 (14.29%) GitHub
4 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Wireless
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (16.33%) Redis
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.04%) MySQL
2 1 (2.04%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Git
2 10 (20.41%) JIRA
3 7 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 6 (12.24%) JMeter
5 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.12%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
6 2 (4.08%) Appium
6 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (4.08%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) Postman
6 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
6 2 (4.08%) TestNG
7 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) Grunt
7 1 (2.04%) NUnit
7 1 (2.04%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.16%) Retail
5 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Welsh Language
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 14 (28.57%) Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Senior Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Backend Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Architect
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead
9 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Django
2 7 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 7 (14.29%) Flask
2 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 7 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 7 (14.29%) OAuth
2 7 (14.29%) pytest
2 7 (14.29%) RESTful
2 7 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 7 (14.29%) WebSockets
3 5 (10.20%) Node.js
4 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.12%) React
6 2 (4.08%) ADO
6 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.08%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.12%) NHS
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
1 5 (10.20%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 14 (28.57%) Scrum
4 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
5 10 (20.41%) Test Automation
6 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
7 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (16.33%) Front End Development
8 7 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 7 (14.29%) Performance Testing
9 6 (12.24%) Kanban
9 6 (12.24%) Test Scripting
10 5 (10.20%) IT Strategy
10 5 (10.20%) Microservices
10 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
10 5 (10.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 15 (30.61%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) C#
4 8 (16.33%) Java
5 6 (12.24%) Groovy
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.16%) Ruby
7 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.12%) Go
9 2 (4.08%) C++
9 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) CSPO
4 3 (6.12%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.04%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Grafana
2 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Terraform
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Cisco
2 2 (4.08%) Mitel
2 2 (4.08%) PagerDuty
2 2 (4.08%) VMware
3 1 (2.04%) Google