DevSecOps Contracts in England

DevSecOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 272 292 314
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +57
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 223 270 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.92% 0.73% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.84% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 301
10th Percentile £425 £393 £481
25th Percentile £500 £495 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £763 £810 £807
UK median daily rate £613 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.88% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £30.41 £45.88 -
25th Percentile £35.34 £48.43 -
Median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.47% - -
75th Percentile £51.84 - -
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
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 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 -1 106 £628 -3.83% 143
South East +67 51 £627 -5.43% 55
North of England +13 22 £550 -6.38% 36
Midlands +28 16 £651 +0.08% 21
West Midlands +24 16 £651 +0.08% 15
South West +42 14 £700 +131.40% 20
North West +18 14 £500 -4.31% 21
Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -2.44% 12
East of England +11 3 £775 +868.75% 10
North East - 1 £550 - 4
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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 4 (1.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.90%) Camunda
3 2 (0.90%) nginx
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.84%) Azure
2 57 (25.56%) AWS
3 30 (13.45%) GCP
3 30 (13.45%) SaaS
4 22 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.52%) PaaS
6 18 (8.07%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (7.62%) IaaS
8 16 (7.17%) GitHub
9 14 (6.28%) Azure AKS
9 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.93%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (3.14%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.87%) Network Security
2 18 (8.07%) DNS
3 14 (6.28%) Firewall
4 13 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.38%) VSAN
6 9 (4.04%) HTTP
6 9 (4.04%) VPN
7 7 (3.14%) BGP
7 7 (3.14%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.69%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.69%) WAN
9 5 (2.24%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.24%) DHCP
9 5 (2.24%) MPLS
9 5 (2.24%) NGFW
9 5 (2.24%) OSPF
10 4 (1.79%) SSL
10 4 (1.79%) VLAN
11 3 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) Power BI
2 5 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.45%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (12.56%) GitLab
2 25 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.73%) JIRA
4 14 (6.28%) Git
5 9 (4.04%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.69%) Snyk
7 3 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.35%) Maven
7 3 (1.35%) Subversion
7 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) MLflow
9 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.94%) Finance
3 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.07%) Banking
5 11 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.24%) Legal
6 5 (2.24%) Retail
7 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Automotive
10 1 (0.45%) Aviation
10 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (34.98%) Architect
2 45 (20.18%) Senior
3 38 (17.04%) Security Architect
4 34 (15.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 21 (9.42%) Technical Architect
6 16 (7.17%) Consultant
7 15 (6.73%) Lead
7 15 (6.73%) Senior Architect
8 14 (6.28%) Security Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.83%) Developer
10 12 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.93%) Security Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) Senior Technical Architect
12 10 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.04%) DevSecOps Architect
13 9 (4.04%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.59%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.38%) React
2 11 (4.93%) OAuth
3 9 (4.04%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.59%) JSON
4 8 (3.59%) REST
4 8 (3.59%) SOAP
5 7 (3.14%) JDBC
5 7 (3.14%) OpenID
6 6 (2.69%) .NET
6 6 (2.69%) Node.js
6 6 (2.69%) RESTful
6 6 (2.69%) YAML
7 5 (2.24%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.79%) HTML
8 4 (1.79%) Kafka
8 4 (1.79%) Next.js
8 4 (1.79%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.79%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (10.31%) PKI
3 20 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 19 (8.52%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.28%) Data Centre
5 14 (6.28%) Private Cloud
6 12 (5.38%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.48%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.14%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.69%) Taxonomies
10 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.35%) BYOD
12 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.35%) Replication
13 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.56%) Linux
2 20 (8.97%) Windows
3 11 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.48%) CentOS
5 7 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.14%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.24%) Unix
7 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.35%) HPUX
8 3 (1.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (38.12%) CI/CD
2 76 (34.08%) DevOps
3 73 (32.74%) Agile
4 45 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (19.73%) Containerisation
6 40 (17.94%) Cloud Security
7 36 (16.14%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (14.80%) Microservices
9 29 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (12.56%) Threat Modelling
10 28 (12.56%) TOGAF
11 26 (11.66%) Identity Access Management
11 26 (11.66%) Static Application Security Testing
12 24 (10.76%) Application Security
12 24 (10.76%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (10.76%) Roadmaps
13 23 (10.31%) OWASP
13 23 (10.31%) Risk Management
14 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.83%) Python
2 29 (13.00%) Java
3 28 (12.56%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.87%) Bash
6 11 (4.93%) SQL
7 7 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.69%) Go
9 5 (2.24%) C#
9 5 (2.24%) Perl
10 3 (1.35%) Bicep
10 3 (1.35%) Rust
10 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.90%) C++
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.25%) CISSP
4 23 (10.31%) CISM
5 19 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (5.83%) AWS Certification
7 13 (5.83%) CEH
7 13 (5.83%) Degree
8 12 (5.38%) Azure Certification
8 12 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (4.93%) CCSP
9 11 (4.93%) MCSE
9 11 (4.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (4.04%) OSCP
10 9 (4.04%) SANS
11 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.49%) NIST
2 18 (8.07%) NCSC
3 17 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.93%) GDPR
5 11 (4.93%) GRC
6 10 (4.48%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.14%) COBIT
8 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.90%) PMO
10 2 (0.90%) QA
10 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (12.56%) Docker
2 21 (9.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.28%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.14%) vSphere
5 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 54 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 42 (18.83%) Terraform
3 24 (10.76%) Ansible
4 11 (4.93%) Puppet
5 9 (4.04%) Nessus
6 8 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.14%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.14%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.14%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.24%) Grafana
9 4 (1.79%) CASB
9 4 (1.79%) Kibana
9 4 (1.79%) logstash
9 4 (1.79%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.79%) Salt
10 3 (1.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.11%) VMware
3 17 (7.62%) Palo Alto
4 16 (7.17%) Qualys
5 15 (6.73%) Cisco
6 14 (6.28%) Red Hat
7 13 (5.83%) ServiceNow
8 10 (4.48%) ForgeRock
8 10 (4.48%) Google
9 9 (4.04%) Ping Identity
10 7 (3.14%) Splunk
11 6 (2.69%) Oracle
11 6 (2.69%) Veracode
12 5 (2.24%) Coverity
13 4 (1.79%) Ariba
13 4 (1.79%) Dell
13 4 (1.79%) HP
13 4 (1.79%) IBM
13 4 (1.79%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.79%) Veritas