DevSecOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevSecOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 242 277 360
Rank change year-on-year +35 +83 +5
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 99 198 272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.79% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.88% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 157 186
10th Percentile £463 £450 £500
25th Percentile £538 £525 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £610 £628
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -2.79% +4.58%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £738 £798 £784
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

DevSecOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevSecOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevSecOps.

DevSecOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

DevSecOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 55 (55.56%) Azure
2 50 (50.51%) AWS
3 17 (17.17%) GitHub
4 16 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (16.16%) GCP
5 15 (15.15%) IaaS
5 15 (15.15%) PaaS
5 15 (15.15%) SaaS
6 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
8 7 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.07%) Serverless
8 7 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.05%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.02%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) VPN
2 7 (7.07%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) Firewall
2 7 (7.07%) Network Security
3 3 (3.03%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.03%) LAN
3 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.02%) ADSL
4 2 (2.02%) HTTP
4 2 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.02%) PSTN
4 2 (2.02%) Wireless
4 2 (2.02%) WLAN
5 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) Power BI
2 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.01%) Big Data
3 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.01%) OLAP
3 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) GitLab
2 10 (10.10%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.10%) SonarQube
3 7 (7.07%) Git
4 4 (4.04%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.03%) JIRA
6 2 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.02%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.01%) Gradle
7 1 (1.01%) Maven
7 1 (1.01%) RStudio
7 1 (1.01%) Snyk
General
1 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.06%) Retail
4 5 (5.05%) Banking
4 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.03%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (15.15%) Consultant
2 15 (15.15%) Security Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Architect
4 10 (10.10%) Security Consultant
5 8 (8.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Security Architect
6 6 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Senior
7 5 (5.05%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 5 (5.05%) Lead
7 5 (5.05%) Security Technical Consultant
7 5 (5.05%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (5.05%) Technical Security Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) ARM Templates
1 10 (10.10%) Azure Blueprints
2 6 (6.06%) OAuth
2 6 (6.06%) OAuth2
2 6 (6.06%) SAML
3 4 (4.04%) .NET
3 4 (4.04%) JSON
3 4 (4.04%) YAML
4 3 (3.03%) XML
5 2 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.02%) REST
5 2 (2.02%) Web Services
6 1 (1.01%) Blazor
6 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.01%) Jest
6 1 (1.01%) Node.js
6 1 (1.01%) React
6 1 (1.01%) Redux
6 1 (1.01%) RESTful
6 1 (1.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Management Information System
1 13 (13.13%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.05%) IoT
5 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.01%) PKI
8 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.01%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) DevOps
2 30 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 30 (30.30%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (21.21%) Containerisation
4 19 (19.19%) Agile
5 18 (18.18%) Application Security
5 18 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 17 (17.17%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 17 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.17%) Static Application Security Testing
6 17 (17.17%) Test Automation
7 16 (16.16%) Security Testing
8 15 (15.15%) Information Security
8 15 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.13%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (13.13%) Project Management
10 12 (12.12%) SDLC
11 11 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.10%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.13%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.04%) C#
3 4 (4.04%) SQL
4 3 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (2.02%) Ruby
5 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
6 1 (1.01%) Go
6 1 (1.01%) Java
6 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.01%) PHP
6 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.06%) CISSP
6 3 (3.03%) CISM
7 2 (2.02%) CEH
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.01%) CCIP
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.01%) Degree
8 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.15%) NIST
2 11 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (11.11%) NCSC
3 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.03%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (2.02%) COBIT
5 2 (2.02%) SLA
6 1 (1.01%) COSO
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.01%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (41.41%) Docker
2 9 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (40.40%) Terraform
2 35 (35.35%) Kubernetes
3 21 (21.21%) Ansible
4 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.04%) Puppet
5 3 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) Kibana
6 2 (2.02%) logstash
6 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.01%) Argo
7 1 (1.01%) CASB
7 1 (1.01%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.01%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) VMware
3 3 (3.03%) Google
3 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
3 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (2.02%) Aruba
4 2 (2.02%) Blue Coat
4 2 (2.02%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.02%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.01%) BigPanda
5 1 (1.01%) Veracode