DevSecOps Contracts in Cheshire

DevSecOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 53 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.11% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.71% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £474 £496 -
25th Percentile - £498 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £518 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% -17.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £533 £638
90th Percentile £497 £534 -
North West median daily rate £500 £523 £588
% change year-on-year -4.31% -11.06% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Cheshire

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Cheshire

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 5 £492 - 1
DevSecOps
North West

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JDBC
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
2 3 (60.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) API Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ForgeRock
2 3 (60.00%) Ping Identity