DevSecOps Architect Contract Job Trends

DevSecOps Architect
UK

The median DevSecOps Architect daily rate in the UK is £671, 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 659 - 564
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Architect 6 0 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £637 - £761
25th Percentile £656 - £762
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - £784
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.07%
75th Percentile £705 - £793
90th Percentile £751 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £668 - £792
% change year-on-year - - -6.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 48,872 29,931 38,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.58% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,492 19,056 24,610
10th Percentile £328 £283 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £727 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,302 1,437 2,371
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £43.55 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +73.17% -38.57% -6.42%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.92 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.39% +7.28%

DevSecOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevSecOps Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

DevSecOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

DevSecOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Architect over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Architect in the UK

DevSecOps Architect
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 6 £671 - 10
UK excluding London - 4 £668 - 5
South East - 4 £668 - 3
London - 2 £719 - 5
Work from Home - 2 £668 - 1

DevSecOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring DevSecOps Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) CISSP
4 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (50.00%) SBOM
4 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) SLSA
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Use Case
6 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics

DevSecOps Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SLSA
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JWT
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (50.00%) SBOM
4 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Use Case
6 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (16.67%) Edge Computing
6 1 (16.67%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft