DevSecOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 278 301 415
Rank change year-on-year +23 +114 -23
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 118 147 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.63% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.70% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 128 69
10th Percentile £80 £450 £465
25th Percentile £470 £542 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% -3.85% +30.25%
75th Percentile £688 £716 £738
90th Percentile £725 £838 £782
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the UK excluding London 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +10 34 £638 -8.93% 23
North of England +38 28 £588 -6.00% 13
East of England +23 22 £80 -87.70% 4
South West 0 21 £513 -6.82% 19
Yorkshire +25 15 £615 -5.38% 9
North West +20 13 £523 -11.06% 3
Midlands +16 10 £650 +8.33% 14
West Midlands 0 6 £650 +8.33% 8
East Midlands +25 4 £450 -35.71% 6
Scotland +37 3 £600 -4.00% 10
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.36%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) Azure
3 14 (11.86%) GCP
4 11 (9.32%) PaaS
5 10 (8.47%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.47%) SaaS
6 8 (6.78%) IaaS
7 7 (5.93%) GitHub
8 6 (5.08%) Apigee
8 6 (5.08%) Kong
9 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.24%) CloudFront
9 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.39%) Azure API Management
10 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) VPN
2 15 (12.71%) DNS
3 9 (7.63%) HTTP
4 8 (6.78%) Firewall
4 8 (6.78%) Network Security
4 8 (6.78%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.24%) HTTPS
6 3 (2.54%) SSL
7 2 (1.69%) VLAN
7 2 (1.69%) VSAN
8 1 (0.85%) Internet
8 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.85%) Big Data
3 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.85%) OLAP
3 1 (0.85%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) JIRA
2 14 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.78%) GitLab
4 7 (5.93%) Git
5 6 (5.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.08%) CircleCI
5 6 (5.08%) Travis CI
6 5 (4.24%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.85%) GoCD
9 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 13 (11.02%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.93%) Finance
4 5 (4.24%) Retail
5 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Banking
6 2 (1.69%) Military
6 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Data Engineer
2 25 (21.19%) Data Migration Engineer
2 25 (21.19%) Migration Engineer
3 17 (14.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Consultant
9 5 (4.24%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.24%) Senior
10 4 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.54%) Coordinator
11 3 (2.54%) Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) JSON
1 8 (6.78%) YAML
2 7 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.08%) .NET
3 6 (5.08%) XML
4 5 (4.24%) OAuth
4 5 (4.24%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.24%) SAML
4 5 (4.24%) Spring
5 4 (3.39%) REST
5 4 (3.39%) Web Services
6 3 (2.54%) JDBC
6 3 (2.54%) JPA
6 3 (2.54%) JWT
6 3 (2.54%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.69%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.69%) ModSecurity
7 2 (1.69%) Swagger
8 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.78%) PKI
1 8 (6.78%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.08%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.54%) IoT
3 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.69%) IVR
4 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.32%) Windows
2 9 (7.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.14%) Agile
2 39 (33.05%) DevOps
3 33 (27.97%) Migration
4 30 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (22.88%) Data Migration
6 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
7 22 (18.64%) Containerisation
8 19 (16.10%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (14.41%) Cloud Security
11 15 (12.71%) Test Automation
12 14 (11.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 13 (11.02%) Scrum
13 13 (11.02%) Security Testing
13 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (11.02%) Task Automation
14 12 (10.17%) Application Security
14 12 (10.17%) Microservices
15 10 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.80%) Python
2 10 (8.47%) Java
3 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.78%) Bash
5 7 (5.93%) C#
6 3 (2.54%) PHP
6 3 (2.54%) Ruby
7 2 (1.69%) SQL
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.08%) Degree
3 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) CISM
6 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) MCSE
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) NIST
3 3 (2.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) COBIT
5 1 (0.85%) COSO
System Software
1 20 (16.95%) Docker
2 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.39%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (15.25%) Terraform
2 17 (14.41%) Ansible
2 17 (14.41%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.93%) Progress Chef
3 7 (5.93%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (5.08%) Grafana
4 6 (5.08%) Kibana
4 6 (5.08%) logstash
4 6 (5.08%) Puppet
4 6 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.69%) OPNET
5 2 (1.69%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (21.19%) Micro Focus
2 13 (11.02%) VMware
3 11 (9.32%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.08%) Oracle
4 6 (5.08%) Splunk
5 5 (4.24%) Cisco
6 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.54%) Google
7 2 (1.69%) Juniper
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.85%) Sophos