DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

DevSecOps Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 80 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.17% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.18% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £606 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £650 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £638 £582 £600
% change year-on-year +9.54% -3.00% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 942 1,124 1,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 94.30% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 688 1,137
10th Percentile £302 £329 £285
25th Percentile £392 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £594
90th Percentile £657 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 36 60
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.56 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.53 £19.19 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.32 £33.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% +71.43% +10.00%
75th Percentile £32.81 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% +5.71% +50.21%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured DevSecOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in Manchester

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in Manchester

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Cheadle - 2 £650 -
DevSecOps Engineer
North West

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Git
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) C++
4 3 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (50.00%) SELinux
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Podman
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Podman
2 3 (50.00%) SELinux
3 2 (33.33%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform