DevSecOps Contracts in Manchester

DevSecOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 70 93 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +27
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 9 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £488 - £425
25th Percentile £541 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -3.45% +33.85%
75th Percentile £734 £538 £631
90th Percentile £763 - £703
North West median daily rate £500 £523 £588
% change year-on-year -4.31% -11.06% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Manchester

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Manchester

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Manchester

DevSecOps
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 (22.22%) Apigee
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Security Architect
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
1 2 (22.22%) Puppeteer
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) HPUX
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Solaris
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) OWASP
4 3 (33.33%) Security Management
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) API Development
5 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) CEH
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) COBIT
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
1 2 (22.22%) PagerDuty
1 2 (22.22%) Sun
2 1 (11.11%) Unisys