DevSecOps Contracts in the South East

DevSecOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 108 175 179
Rank change year-on-year +67 +4 +54
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 51 30 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.64% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 28 39
10th Percentile £525 £499 £543
25th Percentile £552 £597 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £663 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile - £719 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +66 34 £615 +11.82% 10
Berkshire +39 16 £550 -15.38% 8
Buckinghamshire +29 16 £620 +12.73% 1
Hampshire +32 9 £650 -8.77% 3
Surrey +10 8 £650 -3.70% 7
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) Confluence
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.92%) Camunda
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) SaaS
3 14 (27.45%) AWS
4 11 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (19.61%) PaaS
6 8 (15.69%) IaaS
7 7 (13.73%) OpenShift
8 5 (9.80%) GitHub
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.84%) GCP
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.92%) Serverless
12 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.96%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) VSAN
2 10 (19.61%) TCP/IP
3 9 (17.65%) DNS
4 7 (13.73%) VPN
5 6 (11.76%) BGP
5 6 (11.76%) SD-WAN
5 6 (11.76%) WAN
6 5 (9.80%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (9.80%) Firewall
6 5 (9.80%) MPLS
6 5 (9.80%) NGFW
6 5 (9.80%) OSPF
7 4 (7.84%) DHCP
7 4 (7.84%) VLAN
8 3 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (5.88%) Network Security
9 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.96%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.84%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) Maven
4 2 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Law
4 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Architect
2 19 (37.25%) Senior
3 15 (29.41%) Technical Architect
4 11 (21.57%) Senior Architect
4 11 (21.57%) Senior Technical Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Lead
8 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 4 (7.84%) Security Architect
8 4 (7.84%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Administrator
10 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (3.92%) Java Architect
10 2 (3.92%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (3.92%) PMO Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) React
2 3 (5.88%) ADO
2 3 (5.88%) JSON
2 3 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.92%) Java EE
3 2 (3.92%) Kafka
3 2 (3.92%) Keycloak
3 2 (3.92%) OpenJDK
3 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.96%) Ajax
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.96%) JAX-RS
4 1 (1.96%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.96%) Next.js
4 1 (1.96%) Node.js
4 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.96%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (25.49%) Public Cloud
3 12 (23.53%) PKI
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.96%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Linux
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 11 (21.57%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.73%) CentOS
3 7 (13.73%) Ubuntu
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) CI/CD
2 21 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (31.37%) TOGAF
5 15 (29.41%) Agile
5 15 (29.41%) ITIL
5 15 (29.41%) Microservices
6 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (21.57%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (19.61%) Zachman Framework
10 9 (17.65%) IT Strategy
10 9 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (15.69%) Requirements Management
11 8 (15.69%) Use Case
12 7 (13.73%) Application Packaging
12 7 (13.73%) Change Control
12 7 (13.73%) DevOps
13 6 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.80%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.88%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) Python
6 1 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (72.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (62.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) MCSE
3 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (21.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.84%) CISSP
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) CEH
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.88%) Degree
7 2 (3.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.92%) CCNP
7 2 (3.92%) CCSP
7 2 (3.92%) CISM
7 2 (3.92%) SANS
8 1 (1.96%) CCNA
8 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.96%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (33.33%) NIST
2 14 (27.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (27.45%) NCSC
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (3.92%) PMO
5 1 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.96%) JSP 440
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (27.45%) VMware NSX
3 7 (13.73%) vSphere
4 5 (9.80%) Docker
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Terraform
3 8 (15.69%) Ansible
4 7 (13.73%) Nessus
4 7 (13.73%) vCenter Server
5 4 (7.84%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) CASB
6 1 (1.96%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) VMware
2 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (27.45%) Cisco
3 14 (27.45%) Palo Alto
4 11 (21.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.84%) 3PAR
5 4 (7.84%) Dell
5 4 (7.84%) HP
5 4 (7.84%) Veritas
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle
7 2 (3.92%) Splunk
8 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.96%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (1.96%) New Relic
8 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.96%) Rapid7