DevSecOps Contracts in London

DevSecOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 247 246 265
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 106 147 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.82% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 98 186
10th Percentile £406 £450 £500
25th Percentile £467 £515 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £653 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -3.33% -3.57%
75th Percentile £736 £780 £750
90th Percentile £786 £833 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.47% - -

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily 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 1 May 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 +10 17 £688 +5.77% 7
East London +14 4 £653 +11.54%
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.94%) Confluence
1 1 (0.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.00%) Azure
2 31 (29.25%) AWS
3 17 (16.04%) GCP
4 12 (11.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.49%) Azure AKS
6 9 (8.49%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (8.49%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.49%) SaaS
7 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.60%) IaaS
8 7 (6.60%) PaaS
9 6 (5.66%) GitHub
9 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.49%) DNS
1 9 (8.49%) Network Security
2 6 (5.66%) HTTP
3 5 (4.72%) Firewall
4 4 (3.77%) HTTPS
4 4 (3.77%) SSL
5 3 (2.83%) FTP
5 3 (2.83%) SMTP
5 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.89%) VPN
7 1 (0.94%) BGP
7 1 (0.94%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.94%) Hazelcast
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (14.15%) GitLab
2 12 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.60%) JIRA
3 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.66%) Git
5 5 (4.72%) Snyk
6 3 (2.83%) Subversion
7 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.94%) Gatling
8 1 (0.94%) JMeter
8 1 (0.94%) JUnit
8 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (26.42%) Finance
2 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.55%) Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Legal
6 3 (2.83%) Retail
7 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (0.94%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Front Office
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (33.96%) Architect
2 18 (16.98%) Security Architect
3 17 (16.04%) Senior
4 16 (15.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Consultant
9 7 (6.60%) Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Lead
9 7 (6.60%) Security Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Security Manager
10 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Security Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (3.77%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) OAuth
2 5 (4.72%) .NET
2 5 (4.72%) JSON
2 5 (4.72%) OAuth2
2 5 (4.72%) YAML
3 4 (3.77%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.77%) JDBC
3 4 (3.77%) OpenID
3 4 (3.77%) REST
3 4 (3.77%) SOAP
4 3 (2.83%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.89%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.89%) React
5 2 (1.89%) RESTful
5 2 (1.89%) Swagger
6 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.94%) Next.js
6 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.60%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.66%) PKI
4 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.83%) BYOD
5 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.83%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) CentOS
2 2 (1.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) DevOps
2 32 (30.19%) CI/CD
3 31 (29.25%) Agile
4 22 (20.75%) Cloud Security
5 19 (17.92%) Roadmaps
5 19 (17.92%) Static Application Security Testing
6 17 (16.04%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (13.21%) Threat Modelling
9 13 (12.26%) Application Security
9 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.32%) Containerisation
10 12 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.32%) Microservices
10 12 (11.32%) OWASP
10 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.32%) Security Operations
11 11 (10.38%) SIEM
11 11 (10.38%) TOGAF
12 10 (9.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) Python
2 15 (14.15%) PowerShell
3 14 (13.21%) Bash
4 13 (12.26%) Java
5 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) C#
6 4 (3.77%) Perl
7 3 (2.83%) Bicep
7 3 (2.83%) Go
8 2 (1.89%) C++
8 2 (1.89%) Rust
8 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) CISSP
2 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.32%) CISM
5 10 (9.43%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
7 7 (6.60%) SANS
8 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.72%) Degree
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.89%) CRISC
9 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.94%) CISA
10 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.94%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.21%) NIST
2 13 (12.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (9.43%) GRC
4 5 (4.72%) GDPR
5 3 (2.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.94%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.94%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.15%) Terraform
3 9 (8.49%) Ansible
3 9 (8.49%) Puppet
4 5 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.77%) Salt
6 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.94%) Argo
7 1 (0.94%) CASB
7 1 (0.94%) Grafana
7 1 (0.94%) Istio
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.94%) Nagios
7 1 (0.94%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) Qualys
3 9 (8.49%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.66%) Ping Identity
4 6 (5.66%) Veracode
5 5 (4.72%) Coverity
5 5 (4.72%) ForgeRock
5 5 (4.72%) Google
6 3 (2.83%) Ariba
6 3 (2.83%) Murex
6 3 (2.83%) Okta
6 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.83%) Splunk
7 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle