DevSecOps Contracts in the North of England

DevSecOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 144 157 201
Rank change year-on-year +13 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 22 28 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.59% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.68% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 19
10th Percentile £473 £504 £490
25th Percentile £492 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £623 £700
90th Percentile £750 £645 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
England median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the North of England 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
North West +18 14 £500 -4.31% 21
Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -2.44% 12
North East - 1 £550 - 4
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) Apigee
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (22.73%) Banking
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Automotive
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Security Architect
3 5 (22.73%) DevSecOps Architect
3 5 (22.73%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Security Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) OAuth
2 3 (13.64%) JDBC
2 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
2 3 (13.64%) OpenID
2 3 (13.64%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) Playwright
3 2 (9.09%) Puppeteer
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
1 5 (22.73%) Private Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Taxonomies
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) HPUX
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Solaris
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (27.27%) OWASP
3 6 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Network Architecture
4 5 (22.73%) Security Management
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 4 (18.18%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.64%) Open Source
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (13.64%) Security Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) Systems Thinking
6 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) CCSP
2 4 (18.18%) CEH
2 4 (18.18%) CISM
2 4 (18.18%) CISSP
2 4 (18.18%) OSCP
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) COBIT
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
1 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Grafana
1 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
1 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
1 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ForgeRock
2 4 (18.18%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) Ping Identity
3 3 (13.64%) Sun
4 2 (9.09%) PagerDuty
4 2 (9.09%) Unisys
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) VMware