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

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 122 135
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 25 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.14% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.25% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 6
10th Percentile £480 £518 £481
25th Percentile £492 £529 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £552 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% -9.84% +2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £570 £667
90th Percentile £775 £577 £724
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
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 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 1,953 2,029 2,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.05% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,214 1,778
10th Percentile £282 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £680 £663
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 165 159
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%
75th Percentile £55.37 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

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 19 August 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 19 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
Manchester +5 13 £650 +11.68% 18
Cheshire -9 12 £492 -5.84% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Apigee
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Azure
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) GitLab
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (12.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Security Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Security Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Node.js
2 5 (20.00%) OAuth
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.00%) JDBC
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (12.00%) OpenID
4 3 (12.00%) Playwright
4 3 (12.00%) Puppeteer
4 3 (12.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) SOAP
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) HPUX
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Solaris
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (28.00%) SDLC
6 7 (28.00%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (24.00%) Scrum
8 5 (20.00%) Microservices
9 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (16.00%) Generative AI
9 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (16.00%) UML
10 3 (12.00%) API Development
10 3 (12.00%) API Integration
10 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
10 3 (12.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) C++
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Grafana
3 3 (12.00%) Podman
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) SELinux
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Packer
4 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) PagerDuty
3 3 (12.00%) Ping Identity
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
4 2 (8.00%) Sun
5 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Unisys