DevSecOps Contracts in Birmingham

DevSecOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.91% 0.59% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £504 £638 -
25th Percentile £509 £666 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% - -
75th Percentile £626 £738 -
90th Percentile £641 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £618 £638 £725
% change year-on-year -3.06% -12.07% +20.83%

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 478 554 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.91% 81.71% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 391 492
10th Percentile £164 £235 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £623
90th Percentile £639 £738 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.70 £12.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.50 £15.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £37.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.68% +48.51% +41.46%
75th Percentile £22.08 £50.00 £30.52
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.42 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.59% -32.73% +57.14%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) DSL
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) DataStage
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) logstash
2 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk