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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 45 160 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.69% 7.27% 14.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 9.51% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 90 139
10th Percentile £46,471 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £42,500 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £72,061 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,433 £77,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -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 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -12 36 £65,000 +4.00% 56
West Wales +2 8 £50,124 +0.25%
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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) AWS
3 13 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.22%) Serverless
5 9 (20.00%) GitHub
6 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (2.22%) GCP
11 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.89%) Redis
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.11%) JMeter
4 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.44%) Appium
5 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.44%) JUnit
5 2 (4.44%) Maven
5 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (4.44%) TestNG
6 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.22%) Grunt
6 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 11 (24.44%) Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Architect
4 9 (20.00%) Software Architect
5 8 (17.78%) Senior Developer
6 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) Middleware
2 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) Node.js
3 4 (8.89%) Django
4 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.67%) Flask
4 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.67%) Keycloak
4 3 (6.67%) OAuth
4 3 (6.67%) pytest
4 3 (6.67%) RESTful
4 3 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (6.67%) WebSockets
5 2 (4.44%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) SOAP
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (35.56%) Mentoring
4 15 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 14 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (24.44%) Open Source
6 11 (24.44%) SDLC
7 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.00%) UML
7 9 (20.00%) Waterfall
8 7 (15.56%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.11%) Performance Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.11%) Prototyping
10 5 (11.11%) Scrum
10 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) C#
3 8 (17.78%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) Groovy
5 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.67%) Go
6 3 (6.67%) Ruby
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) Bash
7 2 (4.44%) C++
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (24.44%) Degree
3 9 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 8 (17.78%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Grafana
2 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Argo
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Pega
3 2 (4.44%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Guidewire