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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 93 100
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 8 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.88% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £483 - £425
25th Percentile £494 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £582 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +13.56% +36.67%
75th Percentile £709 - £608
90th Percentile £749 - £703
North West median daily rate £500 £523 £556
% change year-on-year -4.31% -6.07% +48.33%

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 804 1,246 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.94% 86.41% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 845 1,191
10th Percentile £312 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.20 £26.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.16% -24.41% +53.85%

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 June 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 3 (37.50%) Apigee
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) Playwright
1 3 (37.50%) Puppeteer
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) HPUX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) API Development
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) PagerDuty
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (12.50%) Unisys