DevOps Job Trends in Wales

DevOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 51 66 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.07% 11.83% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 13.12% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 46 52 123
10th Percentile £39,238 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,486 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +6.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,750 £68,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,089 £72,412 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & 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 884 503 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 70.49% 90.14% 83.78%
Number of salaries quoted 544 279 998
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £33,875 £40,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,797 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 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 -11 46 £57,500 -11.54% 29
West Wales -17 4 £62,079 +25.12% 2
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 15 (29.41%) Serverless
4 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) Azure Functions
5 9 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (15.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (15.69%) Power Automate
6 8 (15.69%) Power Platform
6 8 (15.69%) PowerApps
7 7 (13.73%) GCP
8 6 (11.76%) dbt
9 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (9.80%) Entra ID
9 5 (9.80%) PaaS
10 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (7.84%) Datadog
10 4 (7.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.92%) SSL
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.84%) Redis
2 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.92%) Looker
4 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Cucumber
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.84%) Selenium
3 3 (5.88%) JMeter
3 3 (5.88%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.88%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.92%) git-flow
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Locust
5 1 (1.96%) Gradle
5 1 (1.96%) JUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Maven
5 1 (1.96%) Moq
5 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Retail
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Law
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Senior
3 7 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Automation Tester
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Incident Manager
8 2 (3.92%) SEO Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) .NET
1 5 (9.80%) Django
1 5 (9.80%) Node.js
2 4 (7.84%) Web Services
3 3 (5.88%) CSS
3 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 3 (5.88%) RESTful
4 2 (3.92%) Gherkin
4 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.92%) HTML5
4 2 (3.92%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.92%) React
4 2 (3.92%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) Spring
4 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.96%) FHIR
5 1 (1.96%) Next.js
5 1 (1.96%) PySpark
5 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
1 4 (7.84%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
2 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Agile
2 24 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 19 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (31.37%) Scrum
5 13 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (25.49%) Performance Optimisation
6 12 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
6 12 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 8 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (15.69%) CRM
7 8 (15.69%) Observability
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.73%) AI
8 7 (13.73%) BDD
8 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.73%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) Clean Code
9 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) C#
3 7 (13.73%) Java
3 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) GRC
3 2 (3.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (3.92%) SEPA
3 2 (3.92%) WCAG
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) HL7
4 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Argo
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (3.92%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.96%) Ansible
7 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Google
2 6 (11.76%) PagerDuty
2 6 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.92%) GoldenSource
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle