DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

DevSecOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 21 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.87% 0.41% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 0.48% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £424 £639 -
25th Percentile £477 £666 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +38.10% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £538
90th Percentile £702 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -7.26% +1.22% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 652 620 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.19% 85.64% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 415 427
10th Percentile £249 £198 £281
25th Percentile £380 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £21.44 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.06 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Akamai
2 8 (38.10%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) Wireshark
3 4 (19.05%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) DNS
4 3 (14.29%) Network Security
4 3 (14.29%) SSL
4 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) DataStage
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) GitLab
4 2 (9.52%) JIRA
5 1 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (4.76%) TestDirector
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Senior
1 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Calypso Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Author
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Development Director
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Author
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
1 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Application Security
3 8 (38.10%) Ethical Hacking
4 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) OWASP
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Bash
2 4 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CEH
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) CSSLP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) CSIRT
2 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) F5
2 8 (38.10%) Splunk
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.52%) Calypso
6 1 (4.76%) Atlassian