DevSecOps Contracts in Buckinghamshire

DevSecOps
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 22 51 79
Rank change year-on-year +29 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 16 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.78% 0.63% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 0.76% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £564 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -6.38% -
75th Percentile £630 - £631
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £627 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -5.43% -5.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Buckinghamshire

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Buckinghamshire

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes - 14 £624 - 6
Bletchley - 1 - -
DevSecOps
South East

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (12.50%) Camunda
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) PaaS
1 10 (62.50%) SaaS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) IaaS
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) VSAN
2 5 (31.25%) BGP
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (31.25%) MPLS
2 5 (31.25%) NGFW
2 5 (31.25%) OSPF
2 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 5 (31.25%) WAN
3 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) VLAN
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Architect
2 15 (93.75%) Technical Architect
3 11 (68.75%) Senior
3 11 (68.75%) Senior Architect
3 11 (68.75%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
1 2 (12.50%) OpenJDK
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (68.75%) PKI
3 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) Microservices
4 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (68.75%) ITIL
5 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
5 10 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (62.50%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (56.25%) IT Strategy
6 9 (56.25%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (50.00%) Requirements Management
7 8 (50.00%) Use Case
8 6 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (31.25%) Virtual Environments
10 3 (18.75%) Adaptive Security
10 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (12.50%) Migration
11 2 (12.50%) Open Source
11 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (68.75%) MCSE
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (68.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Degree
7 1 (6.25%) CCNP
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (87.50%) NCSC
2 12 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (75.00%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (87.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
1 14 (87.50%) Palo Alto
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft