DevSecOps Contracts in Bristol

DevSecOps
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 64 96
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 6 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.12% 0.95% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.14% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £513 - £490
25th Percentile £629 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £80 £569
Median % change year-on-year +793.75% -85.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £750 - £667
90th Percentile £769 £249 £732
South West median daily rate £700 £303 £550
% change year-on-year +131.40% -45.00% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Bristol

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Bristol

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Bristol

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Aviation
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) OWASP
2 3 (50.00%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) CEH
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) OSCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) COBIT
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat