DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

DevSecOps Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.14% 0.60% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 679 618 948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.77% 93.35% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 380 646
10th Percentile £306 £300 £297
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.39% -1.24%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £613
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 8
10th Percentile £21.63 £18.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £19.21
Median hourly rate £25.50 £26.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +23.18% -0.88%
75th Percentile £27.06 £48.75 £22.63
90th Percentile £28.08 - £35.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £21.01
% change year-on-year -5.45% +30.91% -1.14%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevSecOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform