DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 377 400
Rank change year-on-year +52 +23 +108
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 10 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.097% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 30
10th Percentile £444 £596 £400
25th Percentile £550 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £730 £700 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -18.33% -5.77% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DevSecOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +18 4 £700 - 19
Midlands +15 4 £700 - 33
South East +32 3 £609 -9.85% 43
South West - 3 £700 - 19
East of England +30 1 - - 34
North of England +7 1 £501 -16.58% 33
North West +5 1 £501 -14.00% 15
Wales - 1 £325 - 6
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 4 (40.00%) Docker
4 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) SaaS
5 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) NCSC
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) GitHub
7 1 (10.00%) IaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Jenkins

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (10.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Application Security
6 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk