DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

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 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 514 562
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 +181
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 73 50 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 35
10th Percentile £475 £444 £478
25th Percentile £520 £550 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +2.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £710 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.63 -
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 33,137 32,079 41,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,987 19,722 27,981
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 1,044 1,467
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.28 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 13 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -15 67 £625 - 20
UK excluding London -29 38 £650 +4.00% 17
London +9 28 £550 -1.12% 4
North of England -24 17 £623 +10.67% 2
Work from Home +20 16 £619 +3.13% 5
North West -7 14 £625 - 2
South West +2 13 £700 +12.00% 3
West Midlands -31 12 £700 +14.38%
Midlands -33 12 £700 +14.38%
South East +2 6 £725 +11.54% 13
Yorkshire -44 2 £500 -11.11%
Scotland - 2 £595 -
North East -10 1 £520 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, DevSecOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 54 (73.97%) CI/CD
3 51 (69.86%) Kubernetes
4 47 (64.38%) DevOps
5 45 (61.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (60.27%) AWS
7 43 (58.90%) Azure
8 40 (54.79%) Terraform
9 39 (53.42%) Security Cleared
10 37 (50.68%) GitHub
11 35 (47.95%) Docker
11 35 (47.95%) SC Cleared
12 26 (35.62%) Python
13 22 (30.14%) SonarQube
14 21 (28.77%) Containerisation
14 21 (28.77%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (26.03%) Secure Coding
16 17 (23.29%) DV Cleared
16 17 (23.29%) Platform Engineering
17 16 (21.92%) Bash
17 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
17 16 (21.92%) Threat Modelling
18 15 (20.55%) Snyk
19 14 (19.18%) Ansible
19 14 (19.18%) Cloud Security
19 14 (19.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
20 13 (17.81%) SDLC
21 12 (16.44%) Git
21 12 (16.44%) GitLab

DevSecOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 43 (58.90%) Azure
3 37 (50.68%) GitHub
4 21 (28.77%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (12.33%) GCP
5 9 (12.33%) OpenShift
6 7 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.85%) Serverless
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.48%) IaaS
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
10 3 (4.11%) PaaS
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
1 2 (2.74%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) Calico
2 1 (1.37%) MQTT
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) SonarQube
2 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
3 15 (20.55%) Snyk
4 12 (16.44%) Git
4 12 (16.44%) GitLab
5 9 (12.33%) CircleCI
6 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
7 5 (6.85%) Artifactory
7 5 (6.85%) JIRA
8 3 (4.11%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) YAML
2 9 (12.33%) Loki
3 4 (5.48%) Kafka
3 4 (5.48%) Node.js
4 3 (4.11%) OAuth
5 2 (2.74%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.74%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.74%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.37%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (1.37%) gRPC
6 1 (1.37%) JWT
6 1 (1.37%) ModSecurity
6 1 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.96%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.48%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) VMS
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 54 (73.97%) CI/CD
3 47 (64.38%) DevOps
4 45 (61.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (28.77%) Containerisation
6 19 (26.03%) Secure Coding
7 17 (23.29%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (21.92%) Threat Modelling
9 14 (19.18%) Cloud Security
9 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
10 13 (17.81%) SDLC
11 12 (16.44%) Migration
11 12 (16.44%) Regulatory Compliance
11 12 (16.44%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (15.07%) OWASP
13 10 (13.70%) Architectural Patterns
14 9 (12.33%) SIEM
15 8 (10.96%) Vulnerability Management
15 8 (10.96%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 7 (9.59%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) Python
2 16 (21.92%) Bash
3 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.59%) Go
5 6 (8.22%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.11%) Bicep
7 3 (4.11%) C++
7 3 (4.11%) Perl
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (53.42%) Security Cleared
2 35 (47.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) CISSP
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Degree
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.37%) GIAC
7 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (16.44%) NCSC
3 9 (12.33%) NIST
4 5 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.74%) GDPR
6 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.37%) GRC
7 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 35 (47.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (69.86%) Kubernetes
2 40 (54.79%) Terraform
3 14 (19.18%) Ansible
4 11 (15.07%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.85%) Grafana
6 4 (5.48%) Podman
7 3 (4.11%) SELinux
8 2 (2.74%) Argo
8 2 (2.74%) Packer
8 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.37%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.37%) Istio
9 1 (1.37%) Nessus
9 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Checkmarx
2 6 (8.22%) Splunk
2 6 (8.22%) Veracode
3 2 (2.74%) Citrix
3 2 (2.74%) Forcepoint
3 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.37%) Cribl.io
4 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.37%) Qualys
4 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow