DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DevSecOps Engineer
England > London

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 356 383
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +153
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 28 21 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 20
10th Percentile £456 £378 £511
25th Percentile £475 £432 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -7.29% -11.11%
75th Percentile £641 £637 £688
90th Percentile £728 £684 £800
England median daily rate £625 £619 £600
% change year-on-year +1.05% +3.08% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in London

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +6 1 £625 -16.67%
DevSecOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 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 London region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 19 (67.86%) DevOps
3 18 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (60.71%) Azure
4 17 (60.71%) Terraform
5 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 13 (46.43%) GitHub
6 13 (46.43%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
7 10 (35.71%) Python
8 8 (28.57%) Docker
9 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (25.00%) Secure Coding
9 7 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
10 6 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (21.43%) Loki
10 6 (21.43%) Migration
10 6 (21.43%) SIEM
11 5 (17.86%) Bash
11 5 (17.86%) CircleCI
11 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
11 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
11 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
11 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
11 5 (17.86%) NIST
11 5 (17.86%) OWASP
11 5 (17.86%) PowerShell

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 13 (46.43%) GitHub
3 13 (46.43%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (10.71%) IaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) PaaS
7 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Calico
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) CircleCI
1 5 (17.86%) Snyk
2 4 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Loki
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 2 (7.14%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) Fluent Bit
4 1 (3.57%) ModSecurity
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 19 (67.86%) DevOps
3 18 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 7 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) SIEM
6 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
6 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
6 5 (17.86%) OWASP
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
8 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (10.71%) ITSM
8 3 (10.71%) Observability
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (7.14%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Bicep
3 3 (10.71%) Go
3 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.86%) NIST
3 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.57%) GDPR
5 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.57%) NCSC
5 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) Argo
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.57%) Istio
6 1 (3.57%) Nessus
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Citrix
2 2 (7.14%) Forcepoint
2 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Qualys