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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 161 205 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.88% 12.40% 15.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.01% 12.89% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 99 117 214
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £35,000 £41,936
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 1,608 1,590 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.75% 96.19% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 800 1,133
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.87%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -5 119 £62,500 +13.64% 26
West Wales -2 32 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North Wales +1 8 £50,000 - 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 27 (16.77%) ArcGIS
1 27 (16.77%) GeoServer
2 3 (1.86%) CMS
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.86%) nginx
3 2 (1.24%) Apache
3 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) IIS
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (71.43%) Azure
2 61 (37.89%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (33.54%) AWS
4 20 (12.42%) SaaS
5 10 (6.21%) GCP
6 8 (4.97%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.73%) GitHub
8 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.48%) Serverless
9 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.86%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.86%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.86%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.86%) Stripe
10 2 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.24%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.24%) dbt
10 2 (1.24%) Firebase
10 2 (1.24%) npm
11 1 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) DNS
2 3 (1.86%) SMS
3 1 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.77%) GIS
1 27 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (16.77%) QGIS
2 11 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.59%) MySQL
5 6 (3.73%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.73%) Looker
6 5 (3.11%) Power BI
7 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.48%) Redis
8 3 (1.86%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.86%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.86%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Git
2 12 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.45%) Visual Studio
3 10 (6.21%) Postman
4 8 (4.97%) JMeter
5 6 (3.73%) SoapUI
6 5 (3.11%) JIRA
6 5 (3.11%) Selenium
7 3 (1.86%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.86%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (1.86%) JDeveloper
7 3 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.24%) DBeaver
8 2 (1.24%) Grunt
8 2 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.24%) webpack
9 1 (0.62%) GitLab
9 1 (0.62%) MSTest
9 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Finance
3 6 (3.73%) Banking
3 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (3.73%) Retail
4 5 (3.11%) Legal
5 4 (2.48%) Electronics
5 4 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.24%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (24.22%) Developer
2 36 (22.36%) Software Engineer
3 34 (21.12%) Senior
4 22 (13.66%) Lead
5 17 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
9 7 (4.35%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Team Leader
10 6 (3.73%) Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) QA Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.73%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (3.11%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (37.27%) .NET
2 38 (23.60%) CSS
3 37 (22.98%) .NET Core
4 35 (21.74%) React
5 27 (16.77%) Leaflet
5 27 (16.77%) OpenLayers
5 27 (16.77%) PostGIS
6 15 (9.32%) HTML
7 13 (8.07%) Vue
8 12 (7.45%) Node.js
9 7 (4.35%) Web Services
10 5 (3.11%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.11%) Django
11 4 (2.48%) Express.js
11 4 (2.48%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.48%) HTML5
11 4 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.86%) PHP-FPM
12 3 (1.86%) REST
12 3 (1.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.73%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.48%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.48%) FMCG
5 4 (2.48%) Tandem
6 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.86%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.80%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Android
3 8 (4.97%) Windows
4 5 (3.11%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (62.73%) Agile
2 49 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.47%) Actionable Insight
4 39 (24.22%) CI/CD
5 38 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.88%) Test Automation
7 29 (18.01%) Scrum
8 27 (16.77%) Web Development
9 24 (14.91%) Mentoring
10 19 (11.80%) Microservices
11 16 (9.94%) Migration
12 15 (9.32%) Software Testing
13 13 (8.07%) Full Stack Development
14 12 (7.45%) Analytics
14 12 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (7.45%) Change Management
14 12 (7.45%) ETL
14 12 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (7.45%) SDLC
15 11 (6.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.27%) C#
2 59 (36.65%) JavaScript
3 40 (24.84%) Python
4 35 (21.74%) SQL
5 8 (4.97%) C
6 7 (4.35%) Java
6 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.73%) Bash
7 6 (3.73%) C++
7 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.48%) Go
8 4 (2.48%) Groovy
8 4 (2.48%) Ruby
9 3 (1.86%) Perl
9 3 (1.86%) PHP
10 1 (0.62%) Bicep
10 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.35%) Degree
4 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.07%) QA
2 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) MISRA
4 2 (1.24%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (12.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (13.04%) Terraform
2 16 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.83%) Ansible
4 4 (2.48%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.86%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.86%) Grafana
6 2 (1.24%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.24%) Kibana
6 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.77%) ESRI
3 13 (8.07%) Google
4 6 (3.73%) MuleSoft
4 6 (3.73%) OutSystems
5 4 (2.48%) Oracle
5 4 (2.48%) Renesas
6 3 (1.86%) Databricks
6 3 (1.86%) IBM
6 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.62%) Cadence
7 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.62%) VMware
7 1 (0.62%) Xamarin