DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

DevSecOps Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 123 113
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 -
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.050% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.054% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £573 - -
25th Percentile £582 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £495 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.93% -29.29% -
75th Percentile £648 - £725
90th Percentile £664 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +31 1 - - 1
Slough - 1 £650 - 2
Wokingham - 1 £567 -
DevSecOps Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Berkshire region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (33.33%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk