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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 172 182 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.47% 11.21% 15.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.96% 11.56% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 106 138 189
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,538 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £47,390
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +26.61% -0.23%
75th Percentile £72,433 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +11.57%

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 1,078 1,575 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 96.94% 97.04% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 623 962 1,099
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,700
25th Percentile £36,177 £37,500 £35,297
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,210 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% +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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -2 131 £60,000 - 59
West Wales +25 36 £46,210 +8.73% 9
North Wales +18 1 £70,000 -17.65% 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 8 (4.65%) Confluence
1 8 (4.65%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.58%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (80.23%) Azure
2 82 (47.67%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (20.35%) AWS
4 29 (16.86%) Power Platform
5 27 (15.70%) GCP
6 21 (12.21%) Serverless
7 20 (11.63%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (8.72%) GitHub
9 9 (5.23%) SaaS
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.65%) PaaS
11 7 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.49%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.91%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.91%) IaaS
14 4 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.14%) DNS
2 12 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.65%) SSL
4 4 (2.33%) Firewall
5 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.70%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.56%) Power BI
3 12 (6.98%) MySQL
4 11 (6.40%) Redis
5 8 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.65%) RDBMS
5 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.07%) Big Data
7 5 (2.91%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.74%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.74%) GIS
9 3 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (31.40%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) JIRA
2 16 (9.30%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (9.30%) Visual Studio Team System
3 12 (6.98%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (5.23%) Visual Studio
5 8 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.07%) MSBuild
7 5 (2.91%) Selenium
8 4 (2.33%) GitLab
8 4 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.74%) JDeveloper
10 2 (1.16%) Capybara
10 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.16%) RSpec
11 1 (0.58%) JMeter
11 1 (0.58%) MSTest
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (22.09%) Finance
2 26 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.40%) Telecoms
5 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.23%) Banking
7 5 (2.91%) Police
8 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Billing
9 2 (1.16%) Electronics
10 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (27.33%) Developer
2 28 (16.28%) Senior
3 27 (15.70%) Architect
3 27 (15.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (11.05%) Lead
6 17 (9.88%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.72%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 14 (8.14%) Analyst
8 14 (8.14%) Applications Support
9 13 (7.56%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (7.56%) Support Analyst
10 12 (6.98%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 12 (6.98%) Junior
11 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
11 11 (6.40%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.81%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.23%) Lead Developer
13 9 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.07%) .NET
2 27 (15.70%) Vue
3 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
4 16 (9.30%) CSS
4 16 (9.30%) HTML
5 15 (8.72%) jQuery
5 15 (8.72%) Node.js
6 14 (8.14%) .NET Framework
7 13 (7.56%) React
8 12 (6.98%) ASP.NET
9 10 (5.81%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.07%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (4.07%) Next.js
11 4 (2.33%) Express.js
11 4 (2.33%) PySpark
11 4 (2.33%) Web Services
12 3 (1.74%) Django
12 3 (1.74%) RESTful
13 2 (1.16%) Kafka
13 2 (1.16%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Public Cloud
2 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.58%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.58%) PMI
6 1 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.21%) Linux
2 12 (6.98%) Unix
2 12 (6.98%) Windows
3 9 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (50.00%) Agile
2 67 (38.95%) Mentoring
3 61 (35.47%) Actionable Insight
4 50 (29.07%) CI/CD
5 39 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (21.51%) Test Automation
7 29 (16.86%) Computer Science
7 29 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (12.79%) Software Engineering
10 21 (12.21%) Containerisation
10 21 (12.21%) Project Management
11 20 (11.63%) Scrum
12 18 (10.47%) Acceptance Criteria
12 18 (10.47%) Kanban
12 18 (10.47%) Microservices
12 18 (10.47%) User Stories
13 16 (9.30%) Resource Management
14 15 (8.72%) Supply Chain Management
14 15 (8.72%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (38.95%) C#
2 55 (31.98%) SQL
3 43 (25.00%) Python
4 33 (19.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (15.12%) Bash
6 23 (13.37%) Java
7 20 (11.63%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.56%) C++
9 12 (6.98%) TypeScript
10 11 (6.40%) Ruby
11 9 (5.23%) Go
11 9 (5.23%) Perl
12 3 (1.74%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.58%) Bicep
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (25.00%) Degree
2 28 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
4 21 (12.21%) SC Cleared
5 15 (8.72%) DBS Check
6 7 (4.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.16%) CISM
7 2 (1.16%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.72%) QA
2 13 (7.56%) SLA
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) MISRA
4 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (8.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (15.70%) Terraform
2 19 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.07%) Ansible
4 6 (3.49%) Grafana
5 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (35.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.98%) Oracle
3 11 (6.40%) Databricks
4 9 (5.23%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.33%) Google
5 4 (2.33%) New Relic
5 4 (2.33%) SAP
6 3 (1.74%) ESRI
6 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) Remedy
7 2 (1.16%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Renesas
8 1 (0.58%) Veeam
8 1 (0.58%) VMware