DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Somerset

DevSecOps
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -8.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 302 155 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 75.69% 93.94% 74.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 99 96
10th Percentile £357 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.89% +8.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £600
90th Percentile £726 £775 £631
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 22 32
10th Percentile £25.70 £14.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £20.39 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year +101.40% -48.09% -8.33%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Somerset

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Somerset over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Somerset

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 2 July 2026. 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
Taunton - 13 £450 -
Bath - 1 £505 - 1
DevSecOps
South West

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Confluence
2 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) JIRA
3 7 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Architect
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Technical Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
2 9 (64.29%) .NET Core
2 9 (64.29%) GeoJSON
2 9 (64.29%) RESTful
3 7 (50.00%) ATL
3 7 (50.00%) COM
3 7 (50.00%) CSS
3 7 (50.00%) CSS3
3 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (50.00%) HTML5
3 7 (50.00%) MFC
3 7 (50.00%) REST
3 7 (50.00%) WPF
4 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 2 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
5 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (28.57%) Wiki
6 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 9 (64.29%) API Design
3 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
3 9 (64.29%) Deployment Automation
3 9 (64.29%) Microservices
3 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
3 9 (64.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (50.00%) Dependency Management
4 7 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 7 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (50.00%) SOLID
4 7 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 7 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Bicep
1 11 (78.57%) C#
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) NCSC
2 7 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian