DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 896 1163
Rank change year-on-year +23 +267 -349
Permanent jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 23 74 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.071% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.077% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 21 62 55
10th Percentile - £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -4.48%
75th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £109,875 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £87,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +25.00% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +64 22 £78,750 -7.35% 18
UK excluding London +18 11 £75,000 -14.29% 11
London +81 9 £85,000 -1.45% 9
Work from Home +59 5 £70,000 - 12
South West +2 4 £77,500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 1
Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 1
South East - 3 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -63 1 £80,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DevSecOps Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 19 (82.61%) AWS
3 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
4 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
5 12 (52.17%) DevOps
6 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
6 11 (47.83%) Cloud Security
7 10 (43.48%) Docker
7 10 (43.48%) Security Operations
7 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
7 10 (43.48%) Agile
8 9 (39.13%) Ansible
9 8 (34.78%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (30.43%) PKI
10 7 (30.43%) Network Security
10 7 (30.43%) Data Security
10 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (30.43%) Serverless
11 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (26.09%) Azure
12 5 (21.74%) SIEM
12 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (21.74%) Python
12 5 (21.74%) Finance
12 5 (21.74%) Terraform
13 4 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
13 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
13 4 (17.39%) Fintech
13 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.70%) CloudFront
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Snyk
3 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Games
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) boto
1 1 (4.35%) Loki
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) OpenID
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) PropTech
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Cloud Security
4 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 10 (43.48%) Agile
5 10 (43.48%) Security Operations
6 8 (34.78%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (30.43%) Data Security
7 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (21.74%) SIEM
9 4 (17.39%) Fintech
9 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
10 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) Static Application Security Testing
11 2 (8.70%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) CASB
5 1 (4.35%) Anchore
5 1 (4.35%) Grafana
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) Google