DevSecOps Contracts in the South West

DevSecOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 130 123
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 +39
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 13 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.70% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.84% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 33
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £575 £80 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £694
90th Percentile £740 £802 £725
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -5.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,622 3,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.67% 82.97% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 1,675 2,271
10th Percentile £228 £222 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 343 318
10th Percentile £18.18 £13.88 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.61
Median hourly rate £58.75 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% +24.03%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the South West over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £700 - 33
Wiltshire +21 4 £600 -4.00% 7
Bristol +6 4 £653 +715.63% 7
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Snyk
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) CentOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) API Design
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) OWASP
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Security Management
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) CCSP
4 2 (15.38%) CEH
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) CISM
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) OSCP
5 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
2 2 (15.38%) COBIT
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) Kibana
4 3 (23.08%) logstash
5 1 (7.69%) Grafana
5 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat