DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevSecOps
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 9 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.87% 1.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 1.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £475 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% - -
75th Percentile - £738 -
90th Percentile £553 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £520 £725 -
% change year-on-year -28.28% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 181 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.13% 93.78% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 92 97
10th Percentile £174 £278 £240
25th Percentile £364 £353 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £585 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.97 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £37.25 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 4 (44.44%) Quarkus
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Review
4 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) OWASP
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
7 1 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Go
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Argo
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Istio
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx