DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in London

DevSecOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 201 199
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +50
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 249 174 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.29% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.40% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 131 119
10th Percentile £425 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.17% -11.60%
75th Percentile £660 £699 £738
90th Percentile £754 £763 £801
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.63 - -
25th Percentile £64.31 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £94.81 - -
90th Percentile £102.88 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +74.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in London

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in London

DevSecOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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 -12 19 £610 -7.58% 20
South London -6 4 - - 2
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
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 16 (6.43%) Confluence
2 7 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (50.60%) Azure
2 122 (49.00%) AWS
3 66 (26.51%) GitHub
4 51 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (16.47%) GCP
6 38 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (11.24%) Serverless
9 25 (10.04%) Amazon S3
10 23 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (8.43%) Entra ID
12 20 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (7.23%) SaaS
14 16 (6.43%) Power Platform
15 15 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (5.62%) OCI
17 13 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
19 11 (4.42%) Azure AKS
19 11 (4.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.65%) Network Security
2 13 (5.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 3 (1.20%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) IPsec
4 2 (0.80%) NGFW
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) X.509
5 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.40%) IPFIX
5 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) SNMP
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.02%) Power BI
2 8 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.41%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.01%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.61%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.61%) Metadata
5 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.80%) Big Data
7 2 (0.80%) DataStage
7 2 (0.80%) Spark SQL
7 2 (0.80%) Tableau
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 35 (14.06%) GitLab
2 29 (11.65%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.03%) JIRA
4 18 (7.23%) Snyk
5 15 (6.02%) Git
6 12 (4.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.81%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.41%) Burp Suite
8 6 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.40%) git-flow
11 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.40%) RStudio
11 1 (0.40%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 76 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.10%) Finance
3 47 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 29 (11.65%) Banking
5 18 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.82%) Legal
7 6 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Retail
8 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.01%) Private Banking
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (22.09%) Architect
2 37 (14.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 31 (12.45%) Lead
3 31 (12.45%) Senior
4 28 (11.24%) Security Architect
5 27 (10.84%) Security Engineer
6 25 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (8.43%) Consultant
9 19 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (7.63%) Developer
10 18 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.42%) Security Consultant
13 10 (4.02%) Data Engineer
13 10 (4.02%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.61%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 8 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.03%) REST
2 17 (6.83%) PySpark
3 15 (6.02%) React
3 15 (6.02%) RESTful
4 10 (4.02%) Flask
4 10 (4.02%) Kafka
4 10 (4.02%) Loki
5 9 (3.61%) .NET
5 9 (3.61%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.21%) Spring
7 7 (2.81%) OAuth
8 6 (2.41%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.41%) Playwright
8 6 (2.41%) Redux
9 5 (2.01%) SailPoint
9 5 (2.01%) YAML
10 4 (1.61%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.61%) pytest
10 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (28.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (6.83%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.83%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.61%) NHS
3 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.81%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.01%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.01%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.61%) Derivative
7 4 (1.61%) Equities
7 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.42%) Linux
2 5 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (63.45%) CI/CD
2 98 (39.36%) DevOps
2 98 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (33.33%) Agile
4 62 (24.90%) Cloud Security
5 56 (22.49%) AI
6 51 (20.48%) Containerisation
7 50 (20.08%) Observability
8 48 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (17.27%) Application Security
9 43 (17.27%) Microservices
10 42 (16.87%) Security Architecture
10 42 (16.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 39 (15.66%) Software Engineering
11 39 (15.66%) Threat Modelling
12 35 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (14.06%) Identity Access Management
12 35 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (13.65%) Analytics
13 34 (13.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.14%) Python
2 31 (12.45%) Bash
3 21 (8.43%) Java
3 21 (8.43%) PowerShell
4 16 (6.43%) Bicep
5 15 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.62%) SQL
7 12 (4.82%) C#
8 10 (4.02%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (0.80%) R
12 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.24%) CISSP
4 17 (6.83%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.43%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.02%) CISM
7 13 (5.22%) Degree
8 12 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (4.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (4.02%) Azure Certification
10 10 (4.02%) GIAC
11 7 (2.81%) CISA
12 6 (2.41%) CCSP
12 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.41%) OSCP
13 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (2.01%) GPEN
14 4 (1.61%) CSSLP
15 3 (1.20%) CEH
15 3 (1.20%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.25%) NIST
2 25 (10.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.84%) GDPR
4 15 (6.02%) PCI DSS
5 13 (5.22%) Data Quality
6 12 (4.82%) QA
7 8 (3.21%) GRC
8 6 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.01%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.61%) NCSC
11 3 (1.20%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (22.89%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.80%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (34.54%) Terraform
2 71 (28.51%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.84%) Ansible
3 22 (8.84%) Grafana
4 16 (6.43%) Argo
5 11 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.61%) HP Fortify
8 3 (1.20%) Istio
9 2 (0.80%) linkerd
10 1 (0.40%) CASB
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.22%) Databricks
3 13 (5.22%) Splunk
4 11 (4.42%) Oracle
5 10 (4.02%) Palantir
6 8 (3.21%) Google
6 8 (3.21%) Qualys
7 7 (2.81%) Tenable
8 6 (2.41%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.01%) Okta
10 4 (1.61%) Checkmarx
10 4 (1.61%) Veracode
10 4 (1.61%) Workday
10 4 (1.61%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.20%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.80%) Adaptive Insights
12 2 (0.80%) Cisco