DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 115 125
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +18
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.091% 0.060% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.065% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.29%
South East median daily rate £689 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.05 - -
25th Percentile £67.71 - -
Median hourly rate £69.61 - -
75th Percentile £70.71 - -
90th Percentile £70.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £69.61 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,029 1,540 2,143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.38% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,869 931 1,218
10th Percentile £320 £290 £253
25th Percentile £420 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £619
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 104 131
10th Percentile £16.31 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.93 £15.13 £22.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% -55.79% +21.81%
75th Percentile £85.13 £64.69 £69.93
90th Percentile £102.10 £87.19 £87.50
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +114.31% -56.15% +14.70%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevSecOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Berkshire -28 2 - - 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £560 -
DevSecOps Engineer
South East

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 August 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 Thames Valley region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) NCSC
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google