DevSecOps Engineer Contracts

DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 530 630
Rank change year-on-year +60 +100 +131
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 50 52 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 75
10th Percentile £440 £425 £431
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £728
90th Percentile £700 £700 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +35.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £30.41 - -
25th Percentile £35.34 - -
Median hourly rate £43.63 - -
75th Percentile £51.84 - -
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
England +41 34 £617 -1.28% 26
Work from Home +60 27 £625 +13.64% 23
London +23 16 £440 -7.37% 18
UK excluding London +58 12 £650 -3.70% 13
South East +38 6 £650 -3.70% 9
West Midlands - 4 £700 -
Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
South West - 3 £700 -
North of England +19 1 £501 -16.58% 2
Wales - 1 £625 -
North West - 1 £501 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 28 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (44.00%) Azure
4 17 (34.00%) Finance
4 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
5 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (28.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (28.00%) GitLab
6 14 (28.00%) Python
6 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
7 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
7 13 (26.00%) Terraform
8 12 (24.00%) DevOps
8 12 (24.00%) Docker
8 12 (24.00%) Bash
8 12 (24.00%) Azure AKS
8 12 (24.00%) Static Application Security Testing
9 11 (22.00%) Security Posture
9 11 (22.00%) GitHub
9 11 (22.00%) Test Automation
10 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
10 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
11 9 (18.00%) Agile
12 8 (16.00%) Qualys
12 8 (16.00%) Network Security
12 8 (16.00%) Ansible
12 8 (16.00%) Application Security
13 7 (14.00%) AWS
14 6 (12.00%) YAML

DevSecOps Engineer 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 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (2.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 12 (24.00%) Azure AKS
4 11 (22.00%) GitHub
5 7 (14.00%) AWS
6 6 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Datadog
8 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.00%) IaaS
10 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Network Security
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) FTP
2 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.00%) SMTP
2 2 (4.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) GitLab
2 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (8.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (6.00%) Snyk
5 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 17 (34.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Banking
3 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) YAML
2 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) ADO
4 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 28 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (24.00%) DevOps
4 12 (24.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (22.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.00%) Agile
8 8 (16.00%) Application Security
9 6 (12.00%) SIEM
9 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (10.00%) Analytics
10 5 (10.00%) OWASP
10 5 (10.00%) Secure Coding
11 4 (8.00%) Cloud Security
11 4 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
11 4 (8.00%) Information Security
11 4 (8.00%) SDLC
11 4 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) Bash
3 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) SANS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) NCSC
2 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.00%) FedRAMP
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (26.00%) Terraform
3 8 (16.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Puppet
5 4 (8.00%) Salt
6 2 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Nessus
7 1 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.00%) Istio
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Qualys
2 6 (12.00%) Splunk
3 4 (8.00%) LogRhythm
4 3 (6.00%) Veracode
5 2 (4.00%) Coverity
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce