DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > England

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in England is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 495 578
Rank change year-on-year +50 +83 +137
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 34 51 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 55
10th Percentile £440 £425 £400
25th Percentile £449 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £700 £798
UK median daily rate £617 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +2.83% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.13 - -
Median hourly rate £27.25 - -
75th Percentile £27.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.25 - -

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 22,424 33,720 45,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,926 22,354 32,457
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 2,424 1,347
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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 +11 16 £445 -6.32% 18
South East +43 6 £650 -3.70% 10
Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
South West - 3 £700 - 5
North of England +18 1 £501 -16.58% 7
North West - 1 £501 - 7
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 18 (52.94%) Azure
4 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
5 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
5 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
6 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
6 12 (35.29%) Python
6 12 (35.29%) DevOps
7 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
8 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
8 10 (29.41%) Bash
8 10 (29.41%) GitHub
8 10 (29.41%) Finance
8 10 (29.41%) Docker
9 9 (26.47%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (26.47%) Terraform
10 8 (23.53%) GitLab
10 8 (23.53%) Agile
10 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
10 8 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (20.59%) Static Application Security Testing
11 7 (20.59%) Ansible
11 7 (20.59%) Secure Coding
12 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
12 6 (17.65%) SIEM
12 6 (17.65%) YAML
12 6 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS

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 18 (52.94%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub
3 8 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (14.71%) AWS
5 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) Datadog
8 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) PaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) 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 8 (23.53%) GitLab
1 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 3 (8.82%) Snyk
4 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (29.41%) 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
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (35.29%) DevOps
5 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
6 9 (26.47%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (23.53%) Agile
8 7 (20.59%) Secure Coding
8 7 (20.59%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (17.65%) SIEM
10 5 (14.71%) Analytics
10 5 (14.71%) OWASP
10 5 (14.71%) SDLC
10 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 4 (11.76%) Log Analytics
11 4 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 3 (8.82%) Cryptography
12 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) Bash
2 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) SANS
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
1 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
1 3 (8.82%) NCSC
1 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) FedRAMP
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Nessus
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
4 4 (11.76%) Salt
5 3 (8.82%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Istio
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Qualys
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) Veracode
3 2 (5.88%) Coverity
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
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