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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 146 168
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +70
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 54 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.35% 0.68% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.81% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 19 15
10th Percentile £402 £497 £475
25th Percentile £475 £582 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +3.67% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £661
90th Percentile £688 £646 £735
England median daily rate £600 £600 £651
% change year-on-year - -7.87% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile - - £43.80
Median hourly rate - - £45.88
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +74.37% +21.38%

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 3,575 3,469 4,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.09% 83.93% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 2,089 3,081
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 242 203
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.67 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £26.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% -4.51% +41.03%
75th Percentile £44.44 £48.44 £46.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.65 £61.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +13 25 £501 -9.37% 22
Yorkshire -12 25 £484 -22.27% 6
North East - 4 £520 - 7
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 4 (7.41%) CMS
1 4 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.85%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (31.48%) Azure
3 16 (29.63%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Serverless
5 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (7.41%) AWS KMS
6 4 (7.41%) Figma
6 4 (7.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (5.56%) Akamai
7 3 (5.56%) Apigee
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) HTTP
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
3 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) VPN
3 2 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
1 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) Redis
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 12 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (20.37%) Git
4 9 (16.67%) GitLab
4 9 (16.67%) Postman
4 9 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 4 (7.41%) Storybook
6 3 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Architect
1 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Analyst
2 8 (14.81%) Test Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Lead
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 6 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Consultant
6 4 (7.41%) Consultant
6 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 4 (7.41%) Security Consultant
6 4 (7.41%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) Node.js
2 8 (14.81%) RESTful
3 7 (12.96%) React
4 5 (9.26%) OAuth
5 4 (7.41%) Bootstrap
5 4 (7.41%) CSS
5 4 (7.41%) CSS3
5 4 (7.41%) Express.js
5 4 (7.41%) HTML
5 4 (7.41%) HTML5
5 4 (7.41%) Next.js
5 4 (7.41%) Redux
6 3 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 3 (5.56%) JDBC
6 3 (5.56%) OAuth2
6 3 (5.56%) OpenID
6 3 (5.56%) Playwright
6 3 (5.56%) Puppeteer
6 3 (5.56%) SOAP
7 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) PKI
3 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.56%) Replication
4 3 (5.56%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.70%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) HPUX
2 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Solaris
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 25 (46.30%) Agile
3 24 (44.44%) DevOps
4 22 (40.74%) Cloud Security
5 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (27.78%) Scrum
6 15 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 14 (25.93%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (20.37%) Kanban
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (16.67%) API Testing
10 9 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
10 9 (16.67%) Security Testing
11 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 8 (14.81%) SDLC
11 8 (14.81%) Software Testing
11 8 (14.81%) Test Management
11 8 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
12 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) Bash
2 12 (22.22%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
3 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.41%) Go
4 4 (7.41%) Perl
5 3 (5.56%) C++
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) CISSP
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) CISM
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) ISTQB
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (22.22%) NIST
3 9 (16.67%) GDPR
4 7 (12.96%) PCI DSS
5 4 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
7 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
1 14 (25.93%) Terraform
2 11 (20.37%) Ansible
3 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 7 (12.96%) Grafana
5 3 (5.56%) Podman
5 3 (5.56%) SELinux
5 3 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.70%) CSIRT
6 2 (3.70%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.70%) Packer
6 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.22%) Google
3 9 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 8 (14.81%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (14.81%) Thycotic
5 6 (11.11%) Splunk
6 5 (9.26%) ForgeRock
7 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
8 3 (5.56%) F5
8 3 (5.56%) IBM
8 3 (5.56%) PagerDuty
8 3 (5.56%) Ping Identity
8 3 (5.56%) Sun
9 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (3.70%) Unisys
10 1 (1.85%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.85%) Cisco
10 1 (1.85%) Imperva
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle
10 1 (1.85%) Red Hat