DevSecOps Contracts in the North West

DevSecOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 150 169
Rank change year-on-year +29 +19 -29
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 13 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 3
10th Percentile £495 £435 £278
25th Percentile £498 £488 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +2.17% -3.36%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £594
90th Percentile - £679 £598
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.38%
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 West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Lancashire - 5 - - 1
Manchester +14 3 £525 -3.45% 5
Cheshire +7 3 £518 -17.20% 1
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
1 3 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) JDBC
2 3 (23.08%) JPA
2 3 (23.08%) JWT
2 3 (23.08%) WebSockets
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) Swagger
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) Dependency Injection
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Kanban
6 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
6 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
7 2 (15.38%) Information Security
7 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Sprint Backlog
7 2 (15.38%) Statistical Modelling
7 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Sophos