DevOps Jobs in Wales

DevOps
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 165 216 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.18% 12.97% 15.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 13.48% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 105 125 222
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £33,949
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,188
90th Percentile £73,223 £78,336 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,602 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.72% 96.22% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 812 1,138
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,863 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -4 121 £62,500 +11.11% 23
West Wales -1 34 £50,000 +11.11% 7
North Wales +2 8 £50,000 -47.37%
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 27 (16.36%) ArcGIS
1 27 (16.36%) GeoServer
2 5 (3.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.82%) CMS
3 3 (1.82%) nginx
4 2 (1.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (71.52%) Azure
2 62 (37.58%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (32.12%) AWS
4 21 (12.73%) SaaS
5 13 (7.88%) GCP
6 10 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.24%) GitHub
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.42%) Serverless
9 3 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.82%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.82%) Stripe
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.21%) dbt
10 2 (1.21%) Firebase
10 2 (1.21%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) DNS
2 3 (1.82%) SMS
3 2 (1.21%) SSL
3 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.36%) GIS
1 27 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (16.36%) QGIS
2 13 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.27%) MySQL
4 11 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.24%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.24%) Power BI
6 6 (3.64%) Looker
7 4 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.42%) Redis
8 3 (1.82%) Big Data
8 3 (1.82%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.82%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.82%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (15.76%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.27%) Visual Studio
3 10 (6.06%) Postman
4 8 (4.85%) JMeter
5 7 (4.24%) JIRA
6 6 (3.64%) Selenium
6 6 (3.64%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.42%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (1.82%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.82%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (1.82%) JDeveloper
9 2 (1.21%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.21%) Grunt
9 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.21%) webpack
10 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.61%) MSTest
10 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 37 (22.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.91%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.85%) Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.64%) Retail
6 5 (3.03%) Legal
7 4 (2.42%) Electronics
7 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (23.64%) Developer
2 37 (22.42%) Software Engineer
3 34 (20.61%) Senior
4 23 (13.94%) Lead
5 19 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.24%) Development Team Leader
9 7 (4.24%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.24%) Team Leader
10 6 (3.64%) Junior
10 6 (3.64%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) QA Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.64%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Software Team Leader
11 5 (3.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (36.97%) .NET
2 39 (23.64%) CSS
3 37 (22.42%) .NET Core
4 34 (20.61%) React
5 27 (16.36%) Leaflet
5 27 (16.36%) OpenLayers
5 27 (16.36%) PostGIS
6 16 (9.70%) HTML
7 15 (9.09%) Vue
8 12 (7.27%) Node.js
9 7 (4.24%) Web Services
10 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.03%) Django
12 4 (2.42%) Express.js
12 4 (2.42%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.42%) HTML5
12 4 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.82%) Kafka
13 3 (1.82%) PHP-FPM
13 3 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.48%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.64%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.42%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (2.42%) FMCG
6 4 (2.42%) Tandem
7 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.73%) Linux
2 9 (5.45%) Android
3 8 (4.85%) Windows
4 5 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.82%) Unix
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (62.42%) Agile
2 50 (30.30%) Software Engineering
3 42 (25.45%) CI/CD
4 41 (24.85%) Actionable Insight
5 39 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (20.61%) Test Automation
7 29 (17.58%) Scrum
8 27 (16.36%) Mentoring
8 27 (16.36%) Web Development
9 19 (11.52%) Microservices
10 14 (8.48%) Full Stack Development
10 14 (8.48%) Migration
11 13 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (7.88%) Software Testing
12 12 (7.27%) Analytics
12 12 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.27%) Data Science
12 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (7.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.79%) C#
2 59 (35.76%) JavaScript
3 41 (24.85%) Python
4 38 (23.03%) SQL
5 8 (4.85%) C
5 8 (4.85%) Java
6 7 (4.24%) C++
6 7 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.64%) Bash
8 4 (2.42%) Go
8 4 (2.42%) Groovy
8 4 (2.42%) Ruby
9 3 (1.82%) Perl
9 3 (1.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) Bicep
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Degree
4 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.21%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.48%) QA
2 7 (4.24%) GDPR
3 4 (2.42%) MISRA
4 2 (1.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (12.73%) Terraform
2 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (2.42%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.82%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.82%) Grafana
6 2 (1.21%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.21%) Kibana
6 2 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.36%) ESRI
3 13 (7.88%) Google
4 6 (3.64%) MuleSoft
4 6 (3.64%) OutSystems
5 4 (2.42%) Databricks
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle
5 4 (2.42%) Renesas
6 3 (1.82%) IBM
6 3 (1.82%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.21%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.61%) Cadence
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) Xamarin