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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 155 162
Rank change year-on-year +48 +7 +69
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 39 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.31% 0.62% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.74% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 47
10th Percentile £526 £492 £544
25th Percentile £561 £563 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -8.93% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £794
90th Percentile - £719 £838
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 2,731 4,596 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.24% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 2,676 3,476
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £395 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 439 218
10th Percentile £13.15 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.34 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.56% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.87 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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 +48 27 £579 +5.23% 18
Berkshire +37 17 £571 -4.83% 12
Buckinghamshire +20 9 £583 +5.91% 3
Surrey +8 8 £650 -3.70% 8
Hampshire +31 4 £613 -14.04% 15
Oxfordshire - 1 £625 - 6
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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.13%) Camunda
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) SaaS
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
6 4 (10.26%) PaaS
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (5.13%) IaaS
8 2 (5.13%) npm
8 2 (5.13%) Serverless
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) TCP/IP
2 9 (23.08%) DNS
3 7 (17.95%) VPN
4 6 (15.38%) BGP
4 6 (15.38%) SD-WAN
4 6 (15.38%) WAN
5 5 (12.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (12.82%) Firewall
5 5 (12.82%) MPLS
5 5 (12.82%) NGFW
5 5 (12.82%) OSPF
5 5 (12.82%) VSAN
6 4 (10.26%) DHCP
6 4 (10.26%) VLAN
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (7.69%) Network Security
8 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Maven
3 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
1 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.56%) Law
2 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 8 (20.51%) Technical Architect
4 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Lead
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) React Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) React
2 3 (7.69%) JSON
2 3 (7.69%) REST
2 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.13%) CSS
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) Java EE
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
3 2 (5.13%) Keycloak
3 2 (5.13%) Material-UI
3 2 (5.13%) Next.js
3 2 (5.13%) Node.js
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.13%) OpenJDK
3 2 (5.13%) Swagger
4 1 (2.56%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.56%) JAX-RS
4 1 (2.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Public Cloud
3 6 (15.38%) PKI
4 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (12.82%) Security Posture
5 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (7.69%) CentOS
5 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.21%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) TOGAF
7 8 (20.51%) ITIL
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.38%) Cloud Security
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (15.38%) DevOps
10 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (12.82%) Migration
10 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 4 (10.26%) High Availability
11 4 (10.26%) IT Strategy
11 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Java
1 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (58.97%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) MCSE
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (12.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.69%) CISSP
5 3 (7.69%) Degree
6 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) CCNP
6 2 (5.13%) CCSP
6 2 (5.13%) CEH
6 2 (5.13%) SANS
7 1 (2.56%) CCSK
7 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) NIST
2 8 (20.51%) NCSC
3 7 (17.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.13%) GDPR
4 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.56%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) VMware NSX
3 6 (15.38%) Docker
4 3 (7.69%) vSphere
5 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) NetBackup
4 3 (7.69%) Nessus
4 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (2.56%) CASB
5 1 (2.56%) Istio
5 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) VMware
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (20.51%) Red Hat
4 7 (17.95%) Cisco
4 7 (17.95%) Palo Alto
5 4 (10.26%) 3PAR
5 4 (10.26%) Dell
5 4 (10.26%) HP
5 4 (10.26%) Veritas
6 3 (7.69%) Oracle
7 2 (5.13%) Splunk
8 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.56%) Forcepoint
8 1 (2.56%) Google
8 1 (2.56%) New Relic
8 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty
8 1 (2.56%) Rapid7