DevSecOps Contracts in England

DevSecOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 314 366
Rank change year-on-year +19 +52 +98
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 264 391 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.77% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.86% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 301 380
10th Percentile £385 £481 £525
25th Percentile £498 £538 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £775
90th Percentile £817 £807 £850
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.08% - +11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DevSecOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in England.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +16 142 £657 -2.67% 72
South East +7 30 £663 -5.36% 21
North of England +41 28 £588 -6.00% 18
East of England +24 22 £80 -87.70% 7
South West -2 17 £80 -85.45% 17
Yorkshire +29 15 £615 -5.38% 8
North West +28 13 £523 -11.06% 6
Midlands +8 10 £650 +8.33% 11
West Midlands +9 6 £650 +8.33% 5
East Midlands +20 4 £450 -35.71% 6
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.95%) AWS
1 87 (32.95%) Azure
2 50 (18.94%) GCP
3 27 (10.23%) SaaS
4 24 (9.09%) PaaS
4 24 (9.09%) Serverless
5 22 (8.33%) IaaS
6 18 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.92%) GitHub
8 12 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.27%) Apigee
10 6 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
10 6 (2.27%) Kong
11 5 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.61%) Firewall
2 16 (6.06%) DNS
3 15 (5.68%) VPN
4 10 (3.79%) HTTP
4 10 (3.79%) Network Security
5 8 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.27%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.27%) WAN
8 5 (1.89%) LAN
9 4 (1.52%) ADSL
9 4 (1.52%) PSTN
9 4 (1.52%) SSL
9 4 (1.52%) Wireless
9 4 (1.52%) WLAN
10 3 (1.14%) Internet
11 2 (0.76%) VLAN
11 2 (0.76%) VSAN
12 1 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.65%) Big Data
2 7 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.27%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) OLAP
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.85%) GitLab
3 17 (6.44%) JIRA
4 16 (6.06%) Git
5 8 (3.03%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.27%) Travis CI
7 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.76%) Gatling
9 2 (0.76%) Maven
9 2 (0.76%) RStudio
9 2 (0.76%) Selenium
9 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.38%) GoCD
10 1 (0.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
General
1 50 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.42%) Finance
3 20 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.55%) Banking
5 8 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.27%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Billing
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Military
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 48 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 45 (17.05%) Architect
3 31 (11.74%) Security Architect
4 30 (11.36%) Consultant
5 26 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (9.85%) Data Engineer
6 25 (9.47%) Data Migration Engineer
6 25 (9.47%) Migration Engineer
7 24 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (9.09%) Security Engineer
8 23 (8.71%) Security Consultant
9 22 (8.33%) Lead
9 22 (8.33%) Senior
10 16 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 10 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.92%) YAML
2 10 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.79%) JSON
3 7 (2.65%) Node.js
3 7 (2.65%) XML
4 6 (2.27%) .NET
4 6 (2.27%) OAuth
4 6 (2.27%) OAuth2
4 6 (2.27%) SAML
5 5 (1.89%) Kafka
5 5 (1.89%) REST
5 5 (1.89%) Spring
6 4 (1.52%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.14%) JDBC
7 3 (1.14%) JPA
7 3 (1.14%) JWT
7 3 (1.14%) Web Services
8 2 (0.76%) EDI
8 2 (0.76%) SOAP
8 2 (0.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.06%) IoT
2 14 (5.30%) Mobile App
2 14 (5.30%) Security Posture
3 12 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.41%) PKI
6 8 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.38%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.95%) Linux
2 18 (6.82%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.89%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.67%) DevOps
2 83 (31.44%) CI/CD
3 75 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (25.76%) Agile
5 55 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 49 (18.56%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (17.80%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.64%) SDLC
9 34 (12.88%) Application Security
9 34 (12.88%) Information Security
10 33 (12.50%) Security Testing
11 32 (12.12%) Microservices
11 32 (12.12%) Migration
11 32 (12.12%) Penetration Testing
12 31 (11.74%) Security Architecture
13 28 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.23%) Data Migration
15 26 (9.85%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (9.85%) Test Automation
16 23 (8.71%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.64%) Python
2 22 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.82%) Bash
4 13 (4.92%) Java
5 12 (4.55%) SQL
6 8 (3.03%) C#
7 7 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.89%) Bicep
9 5 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.14%) Ruby
11 2 (0.76%) C++
11 2 (0.76%) PHP
11 2 (0.76%) R
12 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 49 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.71%) Degree
4 15 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.79%) CISSP
6 8 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.52%) CISM
9 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.76%) CEH
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.38%) CCNA
11 1 (0.38%) CCNP
11 1 (0.38%) CISA
11 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.39%) NIST
2 21 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.55%) QA
4 10 (3.79%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.27%) GDPR
6 4 (1.52%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
7 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 49 (18.56%) Docker
2 12 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 82 (31.06%) Terraform
2 49 (18.56%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.09%) Ansible
4 12 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 11 (4.17%) Puppet
6 9 (3.41%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.65%) Grafana
8 6 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.27%) Kibana
8 6 (2.27%) logstash
8 6 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) OPNET
9 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 40 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.47%) Micro Focus
3 24 (9.09%) VMware
4 19 (7.20%) Google
5 10 (3.79%) Splunk
6 6 (2.27%) Oracle
6 6 (2.27%) SAP
7 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.52%) Aruba
8 4 (1.52%) Blue Coat
8 4 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.52%) Cisco
8 4 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.52%) Infoblox
8 4 (1.52%) Teradata
9 2 (0.76%) Adobe
9 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.76%) Qualys