DevSecOps Consultant Contracts

DevSecOps Consultant
UK

The median DevSecOps Consultant daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 706 845
Rank change year-on-year +119 +139 -171
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Consultant 11 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.011% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £450 £456 £450
25th Percentile £463 £553 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile £606 £606 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £450
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

DevSecOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured DevSecOps Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Consultant in the UK

DevSecOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps Consultant.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Consultant in the UK

DevSecOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Consultant in the UK

DevSecOps Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 +135 8 £585 -2.50% 3
London +107 8 £585 +46.25%
Work from Home +123 2 £475 -20.83%

DevSecOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, DevSecOps Consultant 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 featuring DevSecOps Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (36.36%) Key Management
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Database Security
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
4 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (36.36%) Security Auditing
4 4 (36.36%) Data Encryption
4 4 (36.36%) Firewall
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (36.36%) WAN
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) PKI
4 4 (36.36%) SIEM
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes

DevSecOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) Data Encryption
4 4 (36.36%) Database Security
4 4 (36.36%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Key Management
4 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (36.36%) Security Auditing
4 4 (36.36%) SIEM
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 1 (9.09%) Dataiku
2 1 (9.09%) Veracode
2 1 (9.09%) VMware