DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > England

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 492 589
Rank change year-on-year +41 +97 +136
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 34 50 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 55
10th Percentile £433 £425 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £700 £779
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £30.41 - -
25th Percentile £35.34 - -
Median hourly rate £43.63 - -
75th Percentile £51.84 - -
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.63 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevSecOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the England 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
London +23 16 £440 -7.37% 21
South East +38 6 £650 -3.70% 26
Midlands - 4 £700 - 17
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 8
South West - 3 £700 - 9
North of England +19 1 £501 -16.58% 18
North West - 1 £501 - 9
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 18 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 17 (50.00%) Azure
4 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
5 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
6 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
6 11 (32.35%) Finance
7 10 (29.41%) Python
7 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
7 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
8 9 (26.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (26.47%) Terraform
9 8 (23.53%) Docker
9 8 (23.53%) GitHub
9 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
9 8 (23.53%) Bash
9 8 (23.53%) Agile
10 7 (20.59%) GitLab
10 7 (20.59%) Ansible
10 7 (20.59%) Static Application Security Testing
10 7 (20.59%) Azure AKS
11 6 (17.65%) Security Posture
11 6 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
11 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
11 6 (17.65%) SIEM
11 6 (17.65%) YAML
12 5 (14.71%) Puppet

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub
4 7 (20.59%) Azure AKS
5 6 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (11.76%) AWS
6 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.94%) Datadog
9 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.94%) GCP
9 1 (2.94%) IaaS
9 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Network Security
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) FTP
2 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) SMTP
2 2 (5.88%) SSL
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) GitLab
2 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.82%) Snyk
5 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) YAML
2 4 (11.76%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) ADO
4 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 18 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
4 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
5 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
7 7 (20.59%) Static Application Security Testing
8 6 (17.65%) SIEM
8 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (14.71%) Analytics
9 5 (14.71%) OWASP
9 5 (14.71%) Secure Coding
10 4 (11.76%) Log Analytics
10 4 (11.76%) SDLC
10 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 3 (8.82%) Application Security
11 3 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (8.82%) Threat Modelling
11 3 (8.82%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Bash
2 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) SANS
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) NCSC
2 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) FedRAMP
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 5 (14.71%) Puppet
5 4 (11.76%) Salt
6 2 (5.88%) Argo
6 2 (5.88%) Nessus
7 1 (2.94%) Grafana
7 1 (2.94%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.94%) Istio
7 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Qualys
1 3 (8.82%) Splunk
1 3 (8.82%) Veracode
2 2 (5.88%) Coverity
3 1 (2.94%) Darktrace
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) LogRhythm
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce