DevOps Engineer Jobs in Wales

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Wales is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 91 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 16 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.71% 2.43% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 2.82% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 24
10th Percentile - £49,250 £37,775
25th Percentile £22,000 - £40,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,497 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.35% +14.16% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £78,750 £74,875
90th Percentile £72,433 £84,875 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 2,102 1,453 1,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 86.03% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 815 1,157
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £31,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year - -5.59% +12.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Wales.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Wales

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Wales

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -17 13 £50,000 -27.00%
West Wales +17 2 £52,500 +16.67%
Mid Wales - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (75.00%) Terraform
3 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
4 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
5 9 (56.25%) Ansible
5 9 (56.25%) Docker
5 9 (56.25%) Azure
5 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
6 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 8 (50.00%) AWS
7 7 (43.75%) Linux
7 7 (43.75%) Software Delivery
8 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
9 4 (25.00%) GCP
9 4 (25.00%) Python
9 4 (25.00%) SQL
9 4 (25.00%) Windows
9 4 (25.00%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) SaaS
10 3 (18.75%) Agile
10 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 3 (18.75%) Microservices
10 3 (18.75%) Fintech
10 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
10 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
11 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeStar
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
3 2 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Software Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (12.50%) ITIL
7 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
8 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (56.25%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Black Duck
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow