DevSecOps Contracts in Central London

DevSecOps
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 112 122 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 17 11 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.85% 0.45% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.50% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 27
10th Percentile £558 £576 £506
25th Percentile £629 £613 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £753 £794 £834
90th Percentile £763 £908 £925
London median daily rate £628 £653 £675
% change year-on-year -3.83% -3.33% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Central London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Central London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Central London

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Central London 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
City of London +14 16 £700 +7.69% 3
Camden - 1 £550 -
DevSecOps
London

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) HTTP
3 2 (11.76%) FTP
3 2 (11.76%) SMTP
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) BGP
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Security Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
5 3 (17.65%) SIEM
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) CISM
3 4 (23.53%) CISSP
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (5.88%) CISA
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
5 1 (5.88%) OCP
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NIST
2 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
4 2 (11.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (11.76%) GRC
4 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
5 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) CASB
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Nagios
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
1 2 (11.76%) Qualys
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Ariba
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.88%) Snow