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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 104 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 +44
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 27 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.31% 1.18% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.29% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 27
10th Percentile £487 £506 £506
25th Percentile £613 £589 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £656 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -6.25% +7.69%
75th Percentile £724 £722 £788
90th Percentile £761 £865 £853
London median daily rate £625 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% -

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 1,927 2,098 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.73% 91.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,446 2,218
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £541 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 19
10th Percentile £22.15 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £15.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -18.36%
75th Percentile £50.75 £70.00 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £56.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -16.90% -12.35% +12.50%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -1 24 £660 +0.57% 14
West End of London - 2 £650 -
City of Westminster - 2 £650 - 1
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 12 (44.44%) AWS
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Kong
5 1 (3.70%) OCI
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) HTTP
4 2 (7.41%) FTP
4 2 (7.41%) SMTP
4 2 (7.41%) SSL
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (7.41%) Big Data
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) DataStage
2 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) Snyk
1 2 (7.41%) Storybook
2 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) git-flow
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Banking
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 7 (25.93%) Security Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.41%) CSS
1 2 (7.41%) CSS3
1 2 (7.41%) Express.js
1 2 (7.41%) HTML
1 2 (7.41%) HTML5
1 2 (7.41%) Jest
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
1 2 (7.41%) React
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) MACH
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (7.41%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.70%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
5 5 (18.52%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) SABSA
6 4 (14.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Java
1 7 (25.93%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) CISSP
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CISM
3 3 (11.11%) CREST Certified
4 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) CASP
4 2 (7.41%) CCSP
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CSSLP
4 2 (7.41%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) CEH
5 1 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) OCP
5 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (25.93%) NIST
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
3 3 (11.11%) QA
4 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.41%) GRC
4 2 (7.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (7.41%) NCSC
5 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.81%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
4 2 (7.41%) SELinux
5 1 (3.70%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) CASB
5 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Ariba
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Qualys
3 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Tenable