DevSecOps Contracts

DevSecOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 305 330
Rank change year-on-year +38 +25 +46
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 283 301 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.69% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.80% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 211 347
10th Percentile £425 £419 £484
25th Percentile £486 £511 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £688 £722 £738
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £619 £625
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £30.41 £45.88 -
25th Percentile £35.34 £48.43 -
Median hourly rate £43.63 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.47% - -
75th Percentile £51.84 - -
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevSecOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps 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 +20 223 £625 - 265
UK excluding London +75 122 £625 +1.05% 160
Work from Home +61 118 £550 -12.00% 217
London -1 106 £628 -3.83% 143
South East +67 51 £627 -5.43% 53
North of England +13 22 £550 -6.38% 38
Midlands +28 16 £651 +0.08% 21
West Midlands +24 16 £651 +0.08% 15
Scotland +25 15 £625 +4.17% 13
South West +42 14 £700 +131.40% 20
North West +18 14 £500 -4.31% 22
Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -2.44% 13
Wales - 6 £478 - 5
East of England +11 3 £775 +868.75% 10
North East - 1 £550 - 4

DevSecOps
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 4 (1.41%) Confluence
2 3 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.71%) Camunda
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 119 (42.05%) Azure
2 79 (27.92%) AWS
3 45 (15.90%) GCP
4 30 (10.60%) SaaS
5 29 (10.25%) GitHub
6 24 (8.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (7.07%) Azure AKS
9 19 (6.71%) PaaS
10 17 (6.01%) IaaS
11 15 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.24%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.18%) Serverless
15 8 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.83%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.31%) Network Security
2 19 (6.71%) DNS
3 14 (4.95%) Firewall
4 13 (4.59%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.24%) VSAN
6 11 (3.89%) HTTP
7 9 (3.18%) VPN
8 7 (2.47%) BGP
8 7 (2.47%) HTTPS
9 6 (2.12%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.12%) WAN
10 5 (1.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.77%) DHCP
10 5 (1.77%) MPLS
10 5 (1.77%) NGFW
10 5 (1.77%) OSPF
11 4 (1.41%) SSL
11 4 (1.41%) VLAN
12 3 (1.06%) FTP
12 3 (1.06%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.83%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.47%) Power BI
3 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.06%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.35%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (13.07%) GitLab
2 35 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.30%) JIRA
4 14 (4.95%) Git
5 9 (3.18%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.12%) Snyk
6 6 (2.12%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.77%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.77%) Storybook
8 4 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.06%) Maven
9 3 (1.06%) Subversion
10 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.35%) Gatling
11 1 (0.35%) MLflow
11 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.49%) Finance
3 27 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.77%) Banking
5 18 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.12%) Legal
6 6 (2.12%) Retail
7 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.06%) Digital Health
8 3 (1.06%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Automotive
9 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (36.40%) Architect
2 50 (17.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 47 (16.61%) Senior
4 45 (15.90%) Security Architect
5 21 (7.42%) Consultant
5 21 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (7.42%) Technical Architect
6 18 (6.36%) Cloud Architect
7 17 (6.01%) Developer
8 16 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.65%) Lead
8 16 (5.65%) Security Consultant
9 15 (5.30%) Security Engineer
9 15 (5.30%) Senior Architect
10 14 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Senior Technical Architect
13 10 (3.53%) DevSecOps Architect
14 9 (3.18%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 9 (3.18%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.01%) React
2 14 (4.95%) OAuth
3 11 (3.89%) OAuth2
3 11 (3.89%) REST
4 9 (3.18%) CSS
5 8 (2.83%) JSON
5 8 (2.83%) Kafka
5 8 (2.83%) SOAP
6 7 (2.47%) JDBC
6 7 (2.47%) OpenID
6 7 (2.47%) RESTful
7 6 (2.12%) .NET
7 6 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.12%) Node.js
7 6 (2.12%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.12%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.12%) Swagger
7 6 (2.12%) YAML
8 5 (1.77%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.77%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 29 (10.25%) Security Posture
3 27 (9.54%) Cloud Native
4 23 (8.13%) PKI
5 20 (7.07%) Public Cloud
6 17 (6.01%) Data Centre
7 15 (5.30%) Private Cloud
8 11 (3.89%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.47%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.12%) Mobile App
11 6 (2.12%) Replication
11 6 (2.12%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.77%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.06%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.66%) Linux
2 24 (8.48%) Windows
3 11 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.53%) CentOS
4 10 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.12%) HPUX
6 6 (2.12%) Solaris
7 5 (1.77%) Unix
8 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.87%) CI/CD
2 98 (34.63%) DevOps
3 91 (32.16%) Agile
4 59 (20.85%) Cloud Security
5 56 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (17.67%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (14.49%) Microservices
9 36 (12.72%) Application Security
9 36 (12.72%) Static Application Security Testing
9 36 (12.72%) TOGAF
10 35 (12.37%) Threat Modelling
11 33 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 30 (10.60%) Identity Access Management
13 30 (10.60%) OWASP
14 29 (10.25%) Risk Management
15 27 (9.54%) Test Automation
16 25 (8.83%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (8.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (19.79%) Python
2 35 (12.37%) Java
3 31 (10.95%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.60%) Bash
5 29 (10.25%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.24%) Go
6 12 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.89%) SQL
8 5 (1.77%) C#
8 5 (1.77%) Perl
9 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) Bicep
10 3 (1.06%) PHP
10 3 (1.06%) R
10 3 (1.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.06%) Rust
11 2 (0.71%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 78 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.90%) CISSP
4 29 (10.25%) CISM
5 22 (7.77%) Degree
6 21 (7.42%) DV Cleared
7 18 (6.36%) AWS Certification
8 17 (6.01%) Azure Certification
9 16 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (5.30%) CEH
11 14 (4.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (4.24%) CCSP
13 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (3.89%) MCSE
14 11 (3.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (3.53%) OSCP
16 9 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (3.18%) SANS
17 7 (2.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.96%) NIST
2 23 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.36%) NCSC
4 15 (5.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (4.95%) GRC
6 11 (3.89%) GDPR
6 11 (3.89%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.83%) COBIT
8 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.06%) QA
10 2 (0.71%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.71%) PMO
10 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 37 (13.07%) Docker
2 21 (7.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.95%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.47%) vSphere
5 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 66 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 54 (19.08%) Terraform
3 31 (10.95%) Ansible
4 15 (5.30%) Puppet
5 11 (3.89%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.18%) Nessus
7 8 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.47%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.12%) Grafana
10 5 (1.77%) CASB
11 4 (1.41%) Argo
11 4 (1.41%) Kibana
11 4 (1.41%) logstash
11 4 (1.41%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.41%) Salt
12 3 (1.06%) Packer
13 2 (0.71%) Istio
13 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.54%) VMware
3 25 (8.83%) Qualys
4 19 (6.71%) Google
5 18 (6.36%) Palo Alto
6 17 (6.01%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.30%) Cisco
8 14 (4.95%) Red Hat
9 11 (3.89%) Splunk
10 10 (3.53%) ForgeRock
11 9 (3.18%) IBM
11 9 (3.18%) Ping Identity
12 8 (2.83%) Oracle
13 6 (2.12%) Sun
13 6 (2.12%) Veracode
14 5 (1.77%) Ariba
14 5 (1.77%) Coverity
14 5 (1.77%) HP
14 5 (1.77%) Unisys
15 4 (1.41%) 3PAR