DevSecOps Contracts in Berkshire

DevSecOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +33
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 24 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.00% 0.75% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 0.87% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile £525 £463 £313
25th Percentile £550 £498 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +24.68% -22.38%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £564
90th Percentile £775 £975 £731
South East median daily rate £600 £600 £700
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

DevSecOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,105 1,496 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.16% 85.93% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 794 996
10th Percentile £350 £316 £313
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £632
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 81 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £17.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £41.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +4.85% +95.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.75 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.64 £87.46 £75.84
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Berkshire

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Berkshire

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Berkshire

DevSecOps
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Wokingham -7 12 £550 -12.00%
Reading +35 11 £625 +26.26% 5
DevSecOps
South East

DevSecOps
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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) npm
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) SonarCloud
6 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Network Security
2 5 (20.83%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) BGP
5 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.17%) LAN
5 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
1 7 (29.17%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) React Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Agile Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) React
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) Material-UI
2 3 (12.50%) Next.js
2 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (8.33%) Swagger
4 1 (4.17%) ADO
4 1 (4.17%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Security Posture
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
6 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
6 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (29.17%) Microservices
5 7 (29.17%) Security Architecture
5 7 (29.17%) SIEM
5 7 (29.17%) Zero Trust
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
8 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Information Security
8 4 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
8 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (12.50%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CISSP
2 6 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (25.00%) CCSP
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) CEH
5 2 (8.33%) SANS
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (4.17%) CCNP
6 1 (4.17%) CCSK
6 1 (4.17%) CISM
6 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) GIAC
6 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) NIST
2 5 (20.83%) GDPR
2 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 4 (16.67%) PSD2
4 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
4 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.17%) CASB
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) 3PAR
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) Veritas
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk