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

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 98 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 +34
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 22 25 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.22% 1.20% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.31% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 23
10th Percentile £454 £506 £462
25th Percentile £613 £586 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £656 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £723 £722 £788
90th Percentile £855 £865 £810
Central London median daily rate £655 £656 £650
% change year-on-year -0.19% +0.96% -7.14%

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 1,697 1,907 2,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.82% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,251 1,981
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
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 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevSecOps

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 29 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 7 (31.82%) GCP
4 6 (27.27%) GitHub
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (13.64%) Azure AI
6 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
6 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) HTTP
4 2 (9.09%) FTP
4 2 (9.09%) SMTP
4 2 (9.09%) SSL
4 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) DataStage
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Storybook
2 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) git-flow
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Snyk
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Security Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.09%) CSS
1 2 (9.09%) CSS3
1 2 (9.09%) Express.js
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
1 2 (9.09%) HTML5
1 2 (9.09%) Jest
1 2 (9.09%) LangChain
1 2 (9.09%) OAuth
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
1 2 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.55%) MACH
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.55%) OpenID
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (22.73%) Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 4 (18.18%) MLOps
7 4 (18.18%) RBAC
8 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.64%) Observability
8 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) CISSP
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) CISM
5 1 (4.55%) CEH
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CREST Certified
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) MCP
5 1 (4.55%) OCP
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
1 6 (27.27%) NIST
2 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (13.64%) EU AI Act
3 3 (13.64%) QA
4 2 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce