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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 263 305
Rank change year-on-year +30 +42 +106
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 107 131 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 96 121
10th Percentile £425 £80 £450
25th Percentile £463 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £624 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -4.08% -
75th Percentile £645 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £725 £838
UK median daily rate £585 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -6.40% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +54 29 £579 -9.22% 367
North of England +3 22 £500 -18.66% 254
Scotland +23 21 £600 - 67
Midlands +23 19 £588 -7.84% 228
West Midlands +21 14 £609 -6.31% 122
North West +9 13 £500 -4.31% 120
South West +28 11 £625 +21.95% 146
Yorkshire +10 8 £550 -11.79% 103
Wales - 7 £475 - 34
East Midlands +11 5 £435 -3.39% 90
East of England +13 3 £598 +646.88% 181
North East - 1 £550 - 31
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 (2.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Camunda
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.99%) AWS
2 40 (37.38%) Azure
3 24 (22.43%) GCP
4 16 (14.95%) GitHub
5 14 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (13.08%) Serverless
6 11 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.54%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.61%) PaaS
8 6 (5.61%) SaaS
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (3.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.80%) Apigee
11 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) DNS
1 12 (11.21%) TCP/IP
2 10 (9.35%) Firewall
3 9 (8.41%) VPN
4 8 (7.48%) Network Security
5 6 (5.61%) BGP
5 6 (5.61%) SD-WAN
5 6 (5.61%) WAN
6 5 (4.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.67%) MPLS
6 5 (4.67%) NGFW
6 5 (4.67%) OSPF
7 4 (3.74%) DHCP
7 4 (3.74%) VLAN
7 4 (3.74%) VSAN
8 3 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.80%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.87%) HTTP
9 2 (1.87%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.35%) Cypress.io
2 10 (9.35%) Git
3 9 (8.41%) GitLab
3 9 (8.41%) JIRA
4 8 (7.48%) Storybook
5 3 (2.80%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.87%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.93%) Maven
7 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
7 1 (0.93%) Snyk
7 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (12.15%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.67%) Banking
5 2 (1.87%) Automotive
5 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (1.87%) Digital Health
5 2 (1.87%) Legal
6 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Law
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
6 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
6 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (35.51%) Architect
2 13 (12.15%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (10.28%) Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Security Architect
3 11 (10.28%) Senior
4 10 (9.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) Lead
5 9 (8.41%) Security Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Architect
6 8 (7.48%) Technical Architect
7 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) React Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.61%) Consultant
8 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (3.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.76%) React
2 12 (11.21%) CSS
3 10 (9.35%) OAuth
4 9 (8.41%) RESTful
5 8 (7.48%) AWS CDK
5 8 (7.48%) GraphQL
5 8 (7.48%) OpenID
5 8 (7.48%) Tailwind CSS
6 7 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (6.54%) Jest
6 7 (6.54%) Node.js
6 7 (6.54%) Playwright
7 6 (5.61%) Spring
8 5 (4.67%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.67%) LDAP
8 5 (4.67%) SAML
9 4 (3.74%) HTML
9 4 (3.74%) Next.js
10 3 (2.80%) JDBC
10 3 (2.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.21%) Data Centre
3 10 (9.35%) PKI
3 10 (9.35%) Security Posture
4 8 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Replication
6 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.67%) Mainframe
7 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.80%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.80%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.87%) NHS
9 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.02%) Linux
2 12 (11.21%) Windows
3 10 (9.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.61%) HPUX
4 6 (5.61%) Solaris
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.66%) CI/CD
2 33 (30.84%) Agile
3 30 (28.04%) DevOps
4 27 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (24.30%) Cloud Security
6 25 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (21.50%) Containerisation
8 21 (19.63%) Microservices
9 17 (15.89%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.89%) TOGAF
10 13 (12.15%) High Availability
11 12 (11.21%) Risk Management
11 12 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.28%) ITIL
12 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
13 10 (9.35%) Front End Development
13 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (9.35%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) Java
1 18 (16.82%) Python
2 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
3 14 (13.08%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.41%) SQL
5 8 (7.48%) Bash
6 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.87%) Bicep
7 2 (1.87%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.21%) CISSP
5 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
6 9 (8.41%) Degree
7 8 (7.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (7.48%) CISM
8 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.67%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (3.74%) CITP
10 4 (3.74%) MCSE
10 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.80%) CEH
11 3 (2.80%) SANS
12 2 (1.87%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) NIST
2 10 (9.35%) GDPR
2 10 (9.35%) NCSC
3 6 (5.61%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.74%) GRC
5 4 (3.74%) QA
6 3 (2.80%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.93%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (23.36%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.61%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (31.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.43%) Terraform
3 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 10 (9.35%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.41%) Grafana
6 5 (4.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Kibana
7 4 (3.74%) logstash
7 4 (3.74%) NetBackup
7 4 (3.74%) Puppet
8 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.87%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.93%) Argo
10 1 (0.93%) CASB
10 1 (0.93%) Consul
10 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) IBM
2 12 (11.21%) VMware
3 11 (10.28%) Google
4 7 (6.54%) Ping Identity
4 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.61%) Cisco
5 6 (5.61%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.61%) Sun
6 5 (4.67%) ForgeRock
6 5 (4.67%) HP
6 5 (4.67%) Qualys
6 5 (4.67%) Splunk
6 5 (4.67%) Unisys
7 4 (3.74%) 3PAR
7 4 (3.74%) Dell
7 4 (3.74%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.74%) Veritas
8 2 (1.87%) Ariba