DevSecOps Contracts in Leeds

DevSecOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 54 60 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +15
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.29% 0.38% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £488 - £660
25th Percentile £550 £513 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -25.00% +43.59%
75th Percentile £714 £538 -
90th Percentile £738 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £615 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +17.14% -22.22% +38.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Leeds

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Leeds

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Leeds

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Mob Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) CEH
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Unisys
2 1 (16.67%) VMware