DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

DevSecOps
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 42 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 4 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.59% 0.79% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.91% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £660 - £504
25th Percentile £675 £763 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £788 £688
90th Percentile £740 - £710
East of England median daily rate £650 £775 £625
% change year-on-year -16.13% +24.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 592 331 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.96% 87.34% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 134 307
10th Percentile £194 £263 £285
25th Percentile £411 £339 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £755
East of England median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 80 147
10th Percentile £16.81 £16.17 £30.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £38.75 £43.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.25 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -1.12%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing DevSecOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Welwyn Garden City 0 2 £750 -3.23%
Hatfield - 1 £650 -
Watford - 1 - - 3
DevSecOps
East of England

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle