DevSecOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 214 289 325
Rank change year-on-year +75 +36 +86
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 122 111 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.63% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 86 120
10th Percentile £455 £80 £450
25th Percentile £525 £470 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £619 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £725 £826
UK median daily rate £613 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.88% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +67 51 £627 -5.43% 55
North of England +13 22 £550 -6.38% 36
Midlands +28 16 £651 +0.08% 21
West Midlands +24 16 £651 +0.08% 15
Scotland +25 15 £625 +4.17% 13
South West +42 14 £700 +131.40% 20
North West +18 14 £500 -4.31% 21
Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -2.44% 12
Wales - 6 £478 - 5
East of England +11 3 £775 +868.75% 10
North East - 1 £550 - 4
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.64%) Camunda
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.82%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.70%) Azure
2 34 (27.87%) AWS
3 20 (16.39%) SaaS
4 18 (14.75%) GCP
5 12 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (9.84%) PaaS
6 10 (8.20%) GitHub
6 10 (8.20%) IaaS
7 7 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.74%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.74%) Serverless
8 6 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.64%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) VSAN
2 10 (8.20%) DNS
2 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.38%) Firewall
3 9 (7.38%) Network Security
4 7 (5.74%) VPN
5 6 (4.92%) BGP
5 6 (4.92%) SD-WAN
5 6 (4.92%) WAN
6 5 (4.10%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.10%) MPLS
6 5 (4.10%) NGFW
6 5 (4.10%) OSPF
7 4 (3.28%) DHCP
7 4 (3.28%) VLAN
8 3 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.46%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.64%) HTTP
10 1 (0.82%) DSL
10 1 (0.82%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.64%) Power BI
4 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.38%) GitLab
3 8 (6.56%) Git
3 8 (6.56%) JIRA
4 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.10%) Storybook
5 3 (2.46%) Maven
6 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.82%) MLflow
7 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.30%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.66%) Finance
4 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.20%) Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Automotive
6 2 (1.64%) Digital Health
6 2 (1.64%) Legal
6 2 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (0.82%) Aviation
7 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (45.90%) Architect
2 26 (21.31%) Senior
3 23 (18.85%) Security Architect
4 17 (13.93%) Technical Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Senior Architect
6 12 (9.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (9.02%) Senior Technical Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Consultant
9 9 (7.38%) DevSecOps Architect
9 9 (7.38%) Security Consultant
10 8 (6.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Architect
10 8 (6.56%) Lead
11 7 (5.74%) Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Security Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) React
2 8 (6.56%) CSS
3 5 (4.10%) AWS CDK
3 5 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.10%) Jest
3 5 (4.10%) Node.js
3 5 (4.10%) RESTful
3 5 (4.10%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (3.28%) ADO
4 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.28%) OAuth
4 4 (3.28%) REST
4 4 (3.28%) SOAP
5 3 (2.46%) HTML
5 3 (2.46%) JDBC
5 3 (2.46%) JSON
5 3 (2.46%) Next.js
5 3 (2.46%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.46%) OpenID
5 3 (2.46%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (13.93%) PKI
3 15 (12.30%) Public Cloud
4 12 (9.84%) Cloud Native
4 12 (9.84%) Data Centre
4 12 (9.84%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.74%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.92%) Replication
7 5 (4.10%) Mainframe
8 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.46%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.64%) NHS
10 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.03%) Linux
1 22 (18.03%) Windows
2 11 (9.02%) Windows Server
3 10 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (6.56%) CentOS
5 7 (5.74%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.92%) HPUX
6 6 (4.92%) Solaris
7 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.16%) CI/CD
2 47 (38.52%) Agile
3 34 (27.87%) DevOps
3 34 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (22.95%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (20.49%) TOGAF
7 24 (19.67%) Microservices
8 23 (18.85%) Cloud Security
9 19 (15.57%) ITIL
10 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.11%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.30%) Risk Management
13 14 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (11.48%) OWASP
13 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
14 13 (10.66%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (10.66%) IT Strategy
14 13 (10.66%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.30%) Java
2 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
2 14 (11.48%) Python
3 11 (9.02%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.20%) SQL
4 10 (8.20%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.92%) Bash
6 2 (1.64%) Go
6 2 (1.64%) Ruby
7 1 (0.82%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) Perl
7 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 48 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 39 (31.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.03%) CISSP
4 17 (13.93%) CISM
4 17 (13.93%) DV Cleared
5 15 (12.30%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (11.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (10.66%) CEH
7 13 (10.66%) Degree
8 12 (9.84%) CCSP
8 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (9.02%) MCSE
9 11 (9.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (7.38%) AWS Certification
10 9 (7.38%) OSCP
11 7 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.74%) Master's Degree
12 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
13 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (3.28%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.31%) NIST
2 17 (13.93%) NCSC
3 15 (12.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (8.20%) PCI DSS
5 8 (6.56%) COBIT
6 5 (4.10%) GDPR
6 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (3.28%) GRC
8 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.64%) PMO
9 2 (1.64%) QA
10 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (13.11%) Docker
3 14 (11.48%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.67%) Terraform
3 15 (12.30%) Ansible
4 7 (5.74%) Nessus
4 7 (5.74%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.28%) CASB
6 4 (3.28%) Grafana
6 4 (3.28%) Kibana
6 4 (3.28%) logstash
6 4 (3.28%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.82%) Argo
9 1 (0.82%) Consul
9 1 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.82%) Istio
9 1 (0.82%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.82%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) VMware
2 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.48%) Cisco
3 14 (11.48%) Palo Alto
4 12 (9.84%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.20%) Google
6 7 (5.74%) IBM
6 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.92%) Oracle
7 6 (4.92%) Sun
8 5 (4.10%) ForgeRock
8 5 (4.10%) HP
8 5 (4.10%) Unisys
9 4 (3.28%) 3PAR
9 4 (3.28%) Dell
9 4 (3.28%) Qualys
9 4 (3.28%) Veritas
10 3 (2.46%) PagerDuty
10 3 (2.46%) Ping Identity
10 3 (2.46%) Splunk