DevSecOps Engineer Contracts

DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK is £554, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 607 758
Rank change year-on-year +84 +151 -67
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 61 90 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 80 60
10th Percentile £403 £439 £513
25th Percentile £453 £500 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% -7.14% +18.64%
75th Percentile £681 £732 £775
90th Percentile £700 £755 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £525
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +11.11%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 22 June 2024.

Daily 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 22 June 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 +77 59 £554 -19.49% 6
London +87 37 £475 -33.57% 4
UK excluding London +14 20 £625 - 2
South East +27 14 £675 -3.57%
Work from Home +65 9 £438 -20.45% 6
North of England - 4 £591 -
Yorkshire - 3 £600 -
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Midlands +13 1 - - 2
East of England +5 1 £750 +50.00%
North West - 1 £582 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2024, 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 61 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 32 (52.46%) DevOps
3 31 (50.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (44.26%) Terraform
5 23 (37.70%) CI/CD
6 22 (36.07%) Agile
6 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
7 20 (32.79%) SC Cleared
7 20 (32.79%) Containerisation
8 19 (31.15%) GCP
9 17 (27.87%) Test Automation
9 17 (27.87%) AWS
10 13 (21.31%) Azure
10 13 (21.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
11 11 (18.03%) Cloud Security
12 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
12 10 (16.39%) Google
13 9 (14.75%) Information Security
13 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
13 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (14.75%) Microservices
14 8 (13.11%) GitLab
14 8 (13.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 8 (13.11%) Penetration Testing
14 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
15 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
15 7 (11.48%) Finance
15 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
15 7 (11.48%) Threat Modelling

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 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) GCP
2 17 (27.87%) AWS
3 13 (21.31%) Azure
4 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.64%) Datadog
7 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.64%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.64%) IaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Hadoop
1 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.92%) Tableau
3 2 (3.28%) Big Data
3 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.11%) GitLab
3 6 (9.84%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (6.56%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) EDI
2 1 (1.64%) J2EE
2 1 (1.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 32 (52.46%) DevOps
3 31 (50.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (37.70%) CI/CD
5 22 (36.07%) Agile
6 20 (32.79%) Containerisation
7 17 (27.87%) Test Automation
8 13 (21.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 11 (18.03%) Cloud Security
10 9 (14.75%) Information Security
10 9 (14.75%) Microservices
11 8 (13.11%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (13.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (11.48%) Threat Modelling
13 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
13 6 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (8.20%) Analytics
14 5 (8.20%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.84%) Bash
3 5 (8.20%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 4 (6.56%) Bicep
5 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Groovy
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) Terraform
2 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Progress Chef
4 4 (6.56%) Puppet
5 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Google
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Qualys
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Imperva
5 1 (1.64%) Rapid7