DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

DevSecOps
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 4.29% 1.33% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.75% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £538 - £543
25th Percentile - £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £825
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -21.21% -
75th Percentile - £675 £926
90th Percentile £563 - £949
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 57 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 81.60% 76.00% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 31 103
10th Percentile £380 £388 £376
25th Percentile £470 £535 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £675
90th Percentile £698 £769 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £18.41 - £44.75
25th Percentile £27.39 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £43.53 £36.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.92% -49.30% +47.92%
75th Percentile £60.74 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.34 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +4.17% -33.02% -26.37%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Software Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) VMware