DevSecOps Contracts in the North of England

DevSecOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 186 230
Rank change year-on-year +34 +44 -41
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 33 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 18
10th Percentile £508 £504 £441
25th Percentile £572 £558 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +6.25% +15.94%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £698
90th Percentile £646 £843 £745
England median daily rate £622 £650 £690
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.80% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.43 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

DevSecOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +27 20 £622 -4.31% 7
North West +21 13 £524 -5.84% 5
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) AWS
3 14 (42.42%) GCP
4 9 (27.27%) GitHub
4 9 (27.27%) Kong
5 6 (18.18%) Apigee
6 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) HTTP
2 11 (33.33%) Firewall
3 9 (27.27%) DNS
3 9 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 9 (27.27%) VPN
4 6 (18.18%) SSL
5 5 (15.15%) HTTPS
6 3 (9.09%) BIG-IP
6 3 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (3.03%) Internet
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 12 (36.36%) JIRA
3 10 (30.30%) Git
4 9 (27.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (27.27%) CircleCI
4 9 (27.27%) GitLab
4 9 (27.27%) Travis CI
5 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.06%) Jaeger
7 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) JSON
1 10 (30.30%) YAML
2 9 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (27.27%) XML
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
4 3 (9.09%) JDBC
4 3 (9.09%) JPA
4 3 (9.09%) JWT
4 3 (9.09%) WebSockets
5 2 (6.06%) Kafka
5 2 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.03%) .NET
6 1 (3.03%) J2EE
6 1 (3.03%) OLE
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
6 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
1 22 (66.67%) DevOps
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (33.33%) Scrum
4 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
4 10 (30.30%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (27.27%) API Integration
5 9 (27.27%) Application Security
5 9 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
5 9 (27.27%) Information Security
5 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (27.27%) Project Management
5 9 (27.27%) Secure Coding
5 9 (27.27%) Task Automation
5 9 (27.27%) Use Case
5 9 (27.27%) Workflow
6 8 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.06%) C#
5 2 (6.06%) SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Ansible
1 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 12 (36.36%) Progress Chef
2 11 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 11 (33.33%) Puppet
2 11 (33.33%) Terraform
3 9 (27.27%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (27.27%) Grafana
3 9 (27.27%) Kibana
3 9 (27.27%) logstash
4 2 (6.06%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) F5
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.06%) Rapid7
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.03%) Imperva
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.03%) Sophos