DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

DevSecOps
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 14 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.64% 0.82% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 0.95% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £488 £573 -
25th Percentile - £644 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £825 £668
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +23.60% +16.09%
75th Percentile £728 £926 £701
90th Percentile £850 £949 -
South West median daily rate £625 £613 £688
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +9.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 317 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.49% 87.09% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 202 231
10th Percentile £326 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £626 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 42
10th Percentile £18.60 £24.70 £33.20
25th Percentile £27.28 £32.52 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% +33.42% -11.42%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.63 £78.27
90th Percentile £78.03 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Gloucestershire

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Gloucester - 12 £700 - 7
DevSecOps
South West

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) YAML
2 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
1 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (7.14%) SFIA
6 1 (7.14%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Podman
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat