DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Surrey

DevSecOps
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 14 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.95% 2.71% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.00% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 20
10th Percentile - - £591
25th Percentile £506 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £553 £675 £688
90th Percentile £574 £679 £689
South East median daily rate £505 £627 £625
% change year-on-year -19.40% +0.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £84.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 387 267 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.47% 90.51% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 180 338
10th Percentile £219 £181 £211
25th Percentile £408 £268 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £586 £538 £595
90th Percentile £688 £660 £700
South East median daily rate £510 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +2.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 24 47
10th Percentile £21.64 £22.13 £11.71
25th Percentile £35.15 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £66.99 £27.75 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +141.41% +51.23% -59.22%
75th Percentile £71.99 £45.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.37 £62.50 £76.66
South East median hourly rate £37.16 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% -23.53% -5.56%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Surrey

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevSecOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in Surrey

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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
Guildford - 12 £513 - 7
Staines - 1 £575 -
Woking - 1 - -
DevSecOps
South East

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 12 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.14%) Advertising
1 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.14%) Military
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
1 8 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) AngularJS
1 12 (85.71%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 11 (78.57%) Front End Development
3 11 (78.57%) Scrum
3 11 (78.57%) SDLC
3 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
4 10 (71.43%) Sprint Planning
4 10 (71.43%) Sprint Review
5 1 (7.14%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (7.14%) Edge Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
5 1 (7.14%) Operational Stability
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Argo
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Red Hat