DevOps Job Trends in West Wales

DevOps
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +16
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5 18 35
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 4.31% 16.51% 29.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 18.75% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 35
10th Percentile £43,498 £42,067 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £74,679 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £66,000 -
Wales median annual salary £57,066 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.89% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 96 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 78.45% 88.07% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 56 39 102
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £32,603
25th Percentile £38,122 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,924 £42,512 £46,816
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% -9.19% +4.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,252 £60,938
90th Percentile £82,800 £65,000 £72,743
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in West Wales

DevOps
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in West Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in West Wales

DevOps
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Swansea -7 5 £55,200 -8.00% 2
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Delphi
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle