DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Southampton

DevSecOps Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in Southampton is £720, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £710 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 - -
75th Percentile £730 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £720 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Southampton with a recognized job title 145 108 151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 97.30% 84.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 71 90
10th Percentile £170 £131 £200
25th Percentile £278 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -16.19% +4.22%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 18
10th Percentile £36.60 - £15.99
25th Percentile £40.00 - £21.89
Median hourly rate £57.79 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +235.74%
75th Percentile £64.11 - £79.38
90th Percentile £82.67 - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -27.19% -4.21% +4.27%

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Southampton region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
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