DevSecOps Engineer Contracts

DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 626 760
Rank change year-on-year +76 +134 -119
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 50 87 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 74 66
10th Percentile £425 £430 £513
25th Percentile £463 £500 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £688 £729 £763
90th Percentile £700 £748 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +35.00% -4.76% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the UK 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
England +89 48 £625 -3.85% 20
London +106 29 £475 -33.57% 10
UK excluding London +51 17 £675 +35.00% 12
South East +30 14 £675 -3.57% 1
Work from Home +68 7 £550 - 13
East of England +12 2 £688 -1.79%
North of England +28 1 £600 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +22 1 £600 -14.29%

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, DevSecOps Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 30 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (48.00%) Terraform
4 23 (46.00%) DevOps
5 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
6 21 (42.00%) Security Cleared
7 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
7 20 (40.00%) Containerisation
8 19 (38.00%) Agile
9 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (34.00%) GCP
11 15 (30.00%) AWS
12 13 (26.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
13 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
14 9 (18.00%) Docker
14 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
14 9 (18.00%) Google
15 8 (16.00%) Azure
15 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
15 8 (16.00%) Microservices
15 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
16 7 (14.00%) GitLab
16 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 7 (14.00%) Penetration Testing
16 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 6 (12.00%) Information Security
17 6 (12.00%) Windows
17 6 (12.00%) Linux
17 6 (12.00%) Python

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (34.00%) GCP
2 15 (30.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Azure
4 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Big Data
2 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Kafka
2 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) EDI
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 30 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (46.00%) DevOps
4 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 20 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 19 (38.00%) Agile
7 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
8 13 (26.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
10 8 (16.00%) Microservices
11 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (14.00%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (12.00%) Information Security
12 6 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
12 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
13 5 (10.00%) Analytics
13 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) Bash
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) NIST
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) Argo
7 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Qualys
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat