DevSecOps Contracts

DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 333 376
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 +85
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 294 453 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.76% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 346 443
10th Percentile £416 £483 £513
25th Percentile £513 £538 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -3.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £775
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.85% +28.40%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +28 264 £625 -3.85% 151
London +10 142 £657 -2.67% 76
UK excluding London +37 110 £622 -0.48% 80
Work from Home +31 95 £625 +2.54% 89
South East +13 30 £663 -5.36% 21
North of England +42 28 £588 -6.00% 18
East of England +32 22 £80 -87.70% 6
South West +5 17 £80 -85.45% 16
Yorkshire +26 15 £615 -5.38% 8
North West +21 13 £523 -11.06% 6
Midlands +4 10 £650 +8.33% 11
West Midlands +8 6 £650 +8.33% 5
East Midlands +19 4 £450 -35.71% 6
Scotland +29 3 £600 -4.00% 7

DevSecOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.74%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 106 (36.05%) AWS
2 102 (34.69%) Azure
3 52 (17.69%) GCP
4 38 (12.93%) SaaS
5 35 (11.90%) PaaS
6 33 (11.22%) IaaS
7 27 (9.18%) Serverless
8 25 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (8.50%) GitHub
9 20 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.08%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.04%) Apigee
13 6 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
13 6 (2.04%) Kong
14 5 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.20%) Firewall
2 16 (5.44%) DNS
3 15 (5.10%) VPN
4 11 (3.74%) Network Security
5 10 (3.40%) HTTP
6 8 (2.72%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (2.04%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.04%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.04%) WAN
9 5 (1.70%) LAN
10 4 (1.36%) ADSL
10 4 (1.36%) Internet
10 4 (1.36%) PSTN
10 4 (1.36%) SSL
10 4 (1.36%) Wireless
10 4 (1.36%) WLAN
11 2 (0.68%) VLAN
11 2 (0.68%) VSAN
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.38%) Big Data
2 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.04%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.36%) Power BI
5 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.34%) OLAP
6 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.20%) GitLab
3 18 (6.12%) Git
4 17 (5.78%) JIRA
5 12 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.06%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.04%) Travis CI
8 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) Maven
10 2 (0.68%) RStudio
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.34%) GoCD
11 1 (0.34%) Gradle
11 1 (0.34%) Katalon Studio
General
1 51 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.33%) Finance
3 20 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.10%) Banking
5 8 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.04%) Retail
7 6 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 50 (17.01%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 47 (15.99%) Architect
3 34 (11.56%) Consultant
4 33 (11.22%) Security Architect
5 29 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (9.18%) Security Engineer
7 26 (8.84%) Data Engineer
7 26 (8.84%) Security Consultant
8 25 (8.50%) Data Migration Engineer
8 25 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.50%) Migration Engineer
9 24 (8.16%) Senior
10 22 (7.48%) Lead
11 17 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 11 (3.74%) Security Technical Consultant
14 11 (3.74%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.42%) YAML
2 10 (3.40%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.40%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.40%) JSON
3 7 (2.38%) .NET
3 7 (2.38%) Node.js
3 7 (2.38%) XML
4 6 (2.04%) OAuth
4 6 (2.04%) OAuth2
4 6 (2.04%) REST
4 6 (2.04%) SAML
5 5 (1.70%) Kafka
5 5 (1.70%) Spring
6 4 (1.36%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.02%) JDBC
7 3 (1.02%) JPA
7 3 (1.02%) JWT
7 3 (1.02%) Web Services
8 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.78%) IoT
2 17 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.44%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.10%) Mobile App
5 13 (4.42%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.08%) PKI
7 8 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.14%) Linux
2 19 (6.46%) Windows
3 6 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.70%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (44.90%) DevOps
2 91 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 82 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (24.49%) Agile
5 62 (21.09%) Cloud Security
6 60 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (19.39%) Containerisation
8 40 (13.61%) SDLC
9 39 (13.27%) Application Security
9 39 (13.27%) Security Testing
10 38 (12.93%) Test Automation
11 36 (12.24%) Information Security
12 34 (11.56%) Penetration Testing
13 33 (11.22%) Security Architecture
14 32 (10.88%) Microservices
14 32 (10.88%) Migration
15 31 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
17 28 (9.52%) Static Application Security Testing
18 27 (9.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.95%) Python
2 23 (7.82%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.12%) Bash
4 15 (5.10%) SQL
5 14 (4.76%) Java
6 9 (3.06%) C#
7 8 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.70%) Bicep
9 5 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.02%) Ruby
11 2 (0.68%) C++
11 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 2 (0.68%) R
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.82%) Degree
4 15 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.42%) CISSP
6 11 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.36%) CISM
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.68%) CEH
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CCNP
11 1 (0.34%) CRISC
11 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.61%) NIST
2 21 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.08%) NCSC
3 12 (4.08%) QA
4 10 (3.40%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.04%) GDPR
6 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.36%) SLA
7 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) COBIT
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 62 (21.09%) Docker
2 13 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (33.67%) Terraform
2 62 (21.09%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.93%) Ansible
4 12 (4.08%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.74%) Puppet
6 9 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (2.38%) Grafana
8 6 (2.04%) Kibana
8 6 (2.04%) logstash
8 6 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) OPNET
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.34%) SCOM
9 1 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 42 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.50%) Micro Focus
3 24 (8.16%) VMware
4 20 (6.80%) Google
5 10 (3.40%) Splunk
6 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.38%) Oracle
7 7 (2.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.70%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.36%) Aruba
9 4 (1.36%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.36%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.36%) Cisco
9 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.36%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.36%) Teradata
10 2 (0.68%) Adobe
10 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.68%) Qualys