DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Leeds

DevSecOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 55 76
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 19 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.62% 1.06% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £438 £422 -
25th Percentile £450 £456 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £556 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -25.83% +42.86%
75th Percentile £539 £617 £775
90th Percentile £609 £631 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -7.87% -7.29% +14.29%

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 645 565 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.09% 85.74% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 358 622
10th Percentile £301 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.81% -1.14%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £35.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Leeds

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Leeds

DevSecOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
6 4 (21.05%) Serverless
7 3 (15.79%) Figma
7 3 (15.79%) GitHub
7 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
8 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
8 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) Network Security
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 5 (26.32%) SSL
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) GitLab
4 3 (15.79%) Storybook
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Calypso Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Product Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Bootstrap
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) CSS3
1 3 (15.79%) Express.js
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
1 3 (15.79%) HTML5
1 3 (15.79%) Next.js
1 3 (15.79%) Node.js
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) Redux
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Flash
2 2 (10.53%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Blockchain
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Derivative
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (36.84%) Incident Response
4 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
4 6 (31.58%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (31.58%) Zero Trust
5 5 (26.32%) Information Security
5 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 4 (21.05%) Application Security
6 4 (21.05%) Data Security
6 4 (21.05%) High Availability
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
6 4 (21.05%) SIEM
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Rust
3 2 (10.53%) Solidity
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (15.79%) CCSP
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CCSK
4 2 (10.53%) CEH
4 2 (10.53%) CISA
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
4 2 (10.53%) OSCP
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (42.11%) NIST
2 7 (36.84%) GDPR
3 5 (26.32%) PCI DSS
4 4 (21.05%) SOC 2
5 3 (15.79%) PSD2
6 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
1 4 (21.05%) F5
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) Calypso
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Zscaler