DevSecOps Contracts in the South East

DevSecOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 176 227
Rank change year-on-year +3 +51 -44
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 30 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.77% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile £499 £541 £575
25th Percentile £597 £550 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £738
90th Percentile £719 £794 £790
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

DevSecOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the South East

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the South East

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the South East

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Surrey +8 15 £675 -3.57% 3
Thames Valley +10 11 £550 -6.38% 3
Berkshire -13 8 £650 +10.64% 3
Buckinghamshire +36 3 £550 -6.38%
Hampshire +4 3 £713 +18.75% 12
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) PaaS
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (13.33%) IaaS
3 4 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
1 2 (6.67%) VLAN
1 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Capability Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) IoT
1 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
1 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (46.67%) Test Automation
2 14 (46.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 11 (36.67%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 5 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) API Management
7 4 (13.33%) Network Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) SDLC
8 3 (10.00%) Analytics
8 3 (10.00%) API Design
8 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.00%) OWASP
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
8 3 (10.00%) Security Testing
8 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) PHP
2 2 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Juniper
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx