DevSecOps Contracts in Reading

DevSecOps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 89 74
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +30
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 11 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.81% 0.089% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.10% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £573 - -
25th Percentile £588 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £495 £350
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% +41.43% -
75th Percentile £718 - £569
90th Percentile £774 - £663
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £600 £481
% change year-on-year +0.83% +24.68% -22.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 561 964 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.42% 85.84% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 523 628
10th Percentile £352 £342 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +6.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.21 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.93 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £59.38
% change year-on-year -47.97% +3.75% +97.92%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Reading

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in Reading.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Reading

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Reading over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Reading

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) npm
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) SonarCloud
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) React Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) Material-UI
1 3 (27.27%) Next.js
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
1 3 (27.27%) React
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
4 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Information Security
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (36.36%) CCSP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) OSCP
4 1 (9.09%) SANS
4 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 3 (27.27%) PSD2
3 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) New Relic
1 1 (9.09%) Rapid7