DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > England

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in England is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 587 734
Rank change year-on-year +97 +147 -135
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 52 64 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 46
10th Percentile £425 £400 £513
25th Percentile £463 £469 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £772
90th Percentile £700 £798 £838
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

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 12 May 2024.

Daily 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 12 May 2024. 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 +96 33 £475 -33.57% 8
South East +31 14 £675 -3.57%
East of England +7 2 £688 -1.79%
North of England +23 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £600 -14.29%
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 52 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 31 (59.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (50.00%) DevOps
4 25 (48.08%) Terraform
5 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
6 20 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
7 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
7 19 (36.54%) Agile
7 19 (36.54%) GCP
8 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
9 15 (28.85%) AWS
10 13 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
11 11 (21.15%) Azure
12 10 (19.23%) Cloud Security
13 9 (17.31%) Google
13 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
13 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
14 8 (15.38%) Microservices
14 8 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
15 7 (13.46%) Penetration Testing
15 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
15 7 (13.46%) Docker
16 6 (11.54%) GitLab
16 6 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
16 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) GCP
2 15 (28.85%) AWS
3 11 (21.15%) Azure
4 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
6 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.92%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.92%) IaaS
6 1 (1.92%) PaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 5 (9.62%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Banking
2 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Kafka
2 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) EDI
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 31 (59.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (50.00%) DevOps
4 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 20 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 19 (36.54%) Agile
7 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
8 13 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 10 (19.23%) Cloud Security
10 8 (15.38%) Microservices
10 8 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (13.46%) Penetration Testing
12 6 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (11.54%) Information Security
12 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
13 5 (9.62%) Analytics
13 5 (9.62%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.54%) Bash
2 6 (11.54%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Bicep
4 2 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Terraform
2 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.62%) Ansible
3 5 (9.62%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.69%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Google
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Qualys
3 2 (3.85%) Red Hat