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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 49 161 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.37% 7.81% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 10.01% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 43 96 125
10th Percentile £46,486 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,080 £42,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £71,125 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,433 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 958 1,609 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 85.38% 78.07% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 551 1,058 794
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,675 £26,362
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,375 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 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 18 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 39 £65,000 +4.00% 60
West Wales +1 9 £50,124 +0.25% 2
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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) IIS
3 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) Azure
2 19 (38.78%) AWS
3 17 (34.69%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.37%) GitHub
5 8 (16.33%) Serverless
6 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.04%) GCP
11 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (10.20%) Redis
2 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) JMeter
4 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.12%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
6 2 (4.08%) Appium
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (4.08%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) Postman
6 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
6 2 (4.08%) TestNG
7 1 (2.04%) Grunt
7 1 (2.04%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.20%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Finance
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Senior
2 11 (22.45%) Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Architect
5 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Software Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (10.20%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Backend Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Performance Test Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Middleware
2 5 (10.20%) Django
2 5 (10.20%) Node.js
3 4 (8.16%) .NET
3 4 (8.16%) FastAPI
3 4 (8.16%) Flask
3 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
3 4 (8.16%) Keycloak
3 4 (8.16%) OAuth
3 4 (8.16%) pytest
3 4 (8.16%) RESTful
3 4 (8.16%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (8.16%) WebSockets
4 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.08%) ADO
5 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.08%) React
5 2 (4.08%) REST
5 2 (4.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.65%) Mentoring
4 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (24.49%) Design Patterns
6 11 (22.45%) Scrum
7 10 (20.41%) Test Automation
8 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.37%) Open Source
8 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
9 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.33%) SDLC
10 7 (14.29%) Microservices
11 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
11 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
11 6 (12.24%) Performance Testing
11 6 (12.24%) UML
11 6 (12.24%) Waterfall
12 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (10.20%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 5 (10.20%) Groovy
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) Go
7 3 (6.12%) Ruby
7 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) Bash
8 2 (4.08%) C++
8 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 6 (12.24%) Chartered Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.04%) CSPO
7 1 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Grafana
2 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.29%) Terraform
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.08%) VMware
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.04%) Mitel
3 1 (2.04%) PagerDuty
3 1 (2.04%) Pega