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 4 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 102 172 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.07% 15.40% 11.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 15.88% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 80 106 138
10th Percentile £23,750 £36,250 £36,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,510 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% +26.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,433 £72,188
90th Percentile £79,600 £75,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +3.70%

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 1,002 1,083 1,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.27% 96.96% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 456 624 956
10th Percentile £30,625 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,015 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,104 £47,500 £49,890
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -4.79% +10.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,144 £73,189 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +1 78 £58,750 -2.08% 32
West Wales -2 21 £50,000 +8.20% 4
Mid Wales - 2 - -
North Wales -16 1 £65,000 -7.14%
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 12 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) CMS
2 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.80%) Azure
2 44 (43.14%) AWS
3 37 (36.27%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (31.37%) GitHub
5 23 (22.55%) GCP
6 19 (18.63%) Sentry
7 18 (17.65%) Serverless
8 17 (16.67%) BrowserStack
8 17 (16.67%) Firebase
9 13 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.88%) dbt
11 6 (5.88%) PaaS
12 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.90%) SaaS
13 3 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.94%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.67%) MQTT
2 3 (2.94%) Internet
2 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (32.35%) Redis
2 19 (18.63%) MongoDB
3 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.96%) Power BI
7 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
7 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (33.33%) Git
2 17 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 16 (15.69%) JIRA
4 12 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.94%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.96%) Postman
6 2 (1.96%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.98%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.98%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.98%) JMeter
7 1 (0.98%) NUnit
7 1 (0.98%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.98%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.67%) Agriculture
4 10 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.90%) Finance
6 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) Developer
2 33 (32.35%) Senior
3 29 (28.43%) Backend Developer
4 18 (17.65%) Lead
4 18 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 15 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 12 (11.76%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (10.78%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.94%) Architect
12 3 (2.94%) C# Developer
12 3 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.43%) GraphQL
2 23 (22.55%) Node.js
3 20 (19.61%) HTML
4 19 (18.63%) JSON
5 18 (17.65%) Django
5 18 (17.65%) REST
6 17 (16.67%) Express.js
6 17 (16.67%) HTML5
6 17 (16.67%) JWT
6 17 (16.67%) Web Services
7 15 (14.71%) OAuth
8 13 (12.75%) RESTful
9 12 (11.76%) FastAPI
9 12 (11.76%) Flask
9 12 (11.76%) Keycloak
9 12 (11.76%) pytest
9 12 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
9 12 (11.76%) WebSockets
10 11 (10.78%) .NET
11 10 (9.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) IoT
2 12 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.90%) NHS
4 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Android
2 6 (5.88%) Linux
3 5 (4.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.98%) VMS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.20%) CI/CD
2 36 (35.29%) Agile
3 27 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 22 (21.57%) Mentoring
4 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 18 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.67%) User Experience
6 17 (16.67%) UX Design
7 15 (14.71%) Scrum
8 14 (13.73%) Technology Roadmap
9 12 (11.76%) Front End Development
10 11 (10.78%) Customer Experience
10 11 (10.78%) Fintech
10 11 (10.78%) People Management
10 11 (10.78%) Project Roadmap
11 10 (9.80%) TDD
12 8 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.84%) Design Patterns
12 8 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.29%) Python
2 28 (27.45%) JavaScript
3 23 (22.55%) SQL
4 19 (18.63%) C#
5 11 (10.78%) Java
6 9 (8.82%) Ruby
7 6 (5.88%) Go
7 6 (5.88%) Rust
8 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.92%) C++
10 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.96%) Scala
12 1 (0.98%) Bash
12 1 (0.98%) Groovy
12 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) CSPO
4 3 (2.94%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (36.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.75%) Grafana
3 12 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 11 (10.78%) Terraform
5 3 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (40.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.61%) Google
3 2 (1.96%) Cisco
3 2 (1.96%) Mitel
3 2 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (0.98%) PagerDuty
4 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.98%) TIBCO