DevSecOps Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevSecOps Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £668, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 - 378
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Architect 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% - 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £630 - -
25th Percentile £647 - £791
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 - £792
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.82%
75th Percentile £688 - £793
90th Percentile £704 - -
UK median daily rate £671 - £784
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 24,865 13,516 18,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 90.53% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,157 8,348 11,035
10th Percentile £305 £215 £213
25th Percentile £408 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,874 1,158 2,033
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.67 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -41.39% +7.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.87 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.55 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +73.17% -38.57% -6.42%

DevSecOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevSecOps Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DevSecOps Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
South East - 4 £668 - 3
DevSecOps Architect
UK

DevSecOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 July 2026, DevSecOps Architect 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevSecOps Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) SBOM
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (50.00%) SLSA
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes

DevSecOps Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) SBOM
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes