DevSecOps Contracts in the City of London

DevSecOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 103 117 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 16 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.46% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.50% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 25
10th Percentile £625 £576 £535
25th Percentile £635 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £756 £794 £856
90th Percentile £763 £908 £925
Central London median daily rate £688 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +5.77% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the City of London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the City of London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the City of London

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) FTP
3 2 (12.50%) SMTP
3 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Director
4 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CISM
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) JNCIP
5 1 (6.25%) OCP
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) GDPR
4 2 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (12.50%) GRC
5 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) Ariba
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow