DevSecOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 134 135
Rank change year-on-year +66 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 34 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.25% 0.41% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 0.47% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 12
10th Percentile £480 £491 £500
25th Percentile £550 £513 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -6.38% -4.47%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £675 £975 £781
South East median daily rate £627 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -5.43% -5.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +39 16 £550 -15.38% 12
Buckinghamshire +29 16 £620 +12.73% 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 5
DevSecOps
South East

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Camunda
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) AWS
3 11 (32.35%) SaaS
4 10 (29.41%) PaaS
5 8 (23.53%) IaaS
6 5 (14.71%) GitHub
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) GCP
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.88%) Serverless
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.94%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) VSAN
2 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 9 (26.47%) DNS
4 7 (20.59%) VPN
5 6 (17.65%) BGP
5 6 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 6 (17.65%) WAN
6 5 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (14.71%) Firewall
6 5 (14.71%) MPLS
6 5 (14.71%) NGFW
6 5 (14.71%) OSPF
7 4 (11.76%) DHCP
7 4 (11.76%) VLAN
8 3 (8.82%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (8.82%) Network Security
9 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.94%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Architect
2 15 (44.12%) Technical Architect
3 12 (35.29%) Senior
4 11 (32.35%) Senior Architect
4 11 (32.35%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Security Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (5.88%) PMO Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (5.88%) VMware Architect
8 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) ADO
2 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.88%) OpenJDK
2 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) HTML
3 1 (2.94%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.94%) Next.js
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.94%) React
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (35.29%) PKI
3 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
4 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
5 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.94%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 16 (47.06%) TOGAF
3 15 (44.12%) Containerisation
3 15 (44.12%) ITIL
3 15 (44.12%) Microservices
4 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (32.35%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (29.41%) Zachman Framework
7 9 (26.47%) IT Strategy
7 9 (26.47%) Technology Strategy
8 8 (23.53%) Requirements Management
8 8 (23.53%) Use Case
9 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
10 6 (17.65%) Matrix Organization
11 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (14.71%) Virtual Environments
12 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (32.35%) MCSE
3 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (32.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.82%) CISSP
5 3 (8.82%) Degree
6 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.88%) CCNP
6 2 (5.88%) CCSP
6 2 (5.88%) CEH
6 2 (5.88%) SANS
7 1 (2.94%) CCNA
7 1 (2.94%) CISM
7 1 (2.94%) GIAC
7 1 (2.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) NIST
2 14 (41.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (41.18%) NCSC
3 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (41.18%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) NetBackup
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
4 1 (2.94%) CASB
4 1 (2.94%) Istio
4 1 (2.94%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) VMware
2 14 (41.18%) Cisco
2 14 (41.18%) Palo Alto
3 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) 3PAR
4 4 (11.76%) Dell
4 4 (11.76%) HP
4 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.76%) Veritas
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) New Relic
6 1 (2.94%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.94%) Rapid7