DevSecOps Contracts in the North West

DevSecOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 106 124 149
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +20
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 14 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.55% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile £475 £495 £435
25th Percentile £492 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -11.06% +2.17%
75th Percentile £684 £538 £638
90th Percentile £750 - £679
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the North West

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +23 9 £678 +29.05% 16
Cheshire +2 5 £492 -4.93% 3
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) Apigee
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
2 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architect
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Security Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) OAuth
2 3 (21.43%) JDBC
2 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
2 3 (21.43%) OpenID
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (14.29%) Puppeteer
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) PKI
2 3 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Taxonomies
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) HPUX
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Solaris
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) API Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Coaching
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
5 3 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Security Management
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (14.29%) CCSP
1 2 (14.29%) CEH
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) CISM
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
1 2 (14.29%) OSCP
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) COBIT
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ForgeRock
2 3 (21.43%) Ping Identity
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) PagerDuty
3 2 (14.29%) Sun
4 1 (7.14%) Unisys