DevSecOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevSecOps
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 134 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -25
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 13 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.55% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.60% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 4
10th Percentile £466 £500 £571
25th Percentile £499 £533 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £645
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -8.91% +13.16%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £828
90th Percentile £948 £781 £1,081
South East median daily rate £638 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -8.93% +1.82% +38.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

DevSecOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 -13 10 £600 +2.13% 2
Buckinghamshire +29 3 £550 -6.38%
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) PaaS
2 6 (46.15%) IaaS
2 6 (46.15%) SaaS
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (30.77%) Azure API Management
4 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Capability Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) IoT
3 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (46.15%) API Management
3 6 (46.15%) Network Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Affinity Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) High Availability
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) API Design
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (23.08%) Key Management
6 3 (23.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (23.08%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PHP
2 3 (23.08%) Ruby
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat