DevSecOps Contracts

DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 322 370
Rank change year-on-year +22 +48 +94
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 309 447 615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.77% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.86% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 342 443
10th Percentile £422 £482 £525
25th Percentile £500 £538 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +15.29%
75th Percentile £719 £738 £775
90th Percentile £800 £812 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £612 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -2.08% -3.85% +30.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevSecOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 14 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 7 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 +11 279 £625 -3.85% 171
London +17 152 £650 -3.99% 78
UK excluding London +39 115 £612 -2.08% 96
Work from Home +31 99 £625 +2.46% 93
South East +3 32 £638 -8.93% 25
North of England +34 28 £588 -6.00% 13
East of England +19 22 £80 -87.70% 8
South West 0 20 £500 -9.09% 20
Yorkshire +32 15 £615 -5.38% 8
North West +28 13 £523 -11.06% 3
Midlands +14 10 £650 +8.33% 20
West Midlands +3 6 £650 +8.33% 13
East Midlands +21 4 £450 -35.71% 7
Scotland +41 3 £600 -4.00% 8

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 13 (4.21%) Confluence
2 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 111 (35.92%) AWS
1 111 (35.92%) Azure
2 55 (17.80%) GCP
3 41 (13.27%) SaaS
4 38 (12.30%) PaaS
5 35 (11.33%) IaaS
6 29 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (8.41%) Serverless
8 24 (7.77%) GitHub
9 21 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.53%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (1.94%) Apigee
14 6 (1.94%) Kong
14 6 (1.94%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.62%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.36%) Firewall
2 17 (5.50%) VPN
3 16 (5.18%) DNS
4 10 (3.24%) HTTP
4 10 (3.24%) Network Security
5 9 (2.91%) HTTPS
6 8 (2.59%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.94%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.94%) WAN
8 5 (1.62%) LAN
9 4 (1.29%) ADSL
9 4 (1.29%) PSTN
9 4 (1.29%) Wireless
9 4 (1.29%) WLAN
10 3 (0.97%) Internet
10 3 (0.97%) SSL
11 2 (0.65%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.65%) VLAN
11 2 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (2.27%) Big Data
1 7 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.94%) BigQuery
2 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.29%) Power BI
4 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.32%) OLAP
5 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (10.68%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.39%) GitLab
3 19 (6.15%) JIRA
4 18 (5.83%) Git
5 12 (3.88%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.91%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.94%) Travis CI
8 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.65%) Gatling
10 2 (0.65%) Maven
10 2 (0.65%) RStudio
10 2 (0.65%) Selenium
11 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.32%) GoCD
11 1 (0.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
General
1 50 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.86%) Finance
3 23 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.50%) Banking
5 8 (2.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.94%) Retail
6 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.97%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.65%) Billing
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.65%) Marketing
9 2 (0.65%) Military
9 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Aviation
10 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (17.15%) Architect
1 53 (17.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 35 (11.33%) Consultant
2 35 (11.33%) Security Architect
3 30 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (8.41%) Data Engineer
4 26 (8.41%) Security Engineer
4 26 (8.41%) Senior
5 25 (8.09%) Data Migration Engineer
5 25 (8.09%) Migration Engineer
6 24 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.77%) Security Consultant
7 23 (7.44%) Lead
8 17 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (3.88%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 10 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.21%) YAML
2 10 (3.24%) .NET
2 10 (3.24%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.24%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.24%) JSON
3 7 (2.27%) Node.js
3 7 (2.27%) XML
4 6 (1.94%) OAuth
4 6 (1.94%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.94%) SAML
5 5 (1.62%) Kafka
5 5 (1.62%) Spring
6 4 (1.29%) REST
6 4 (1.29%) Web Services
6 4 (1.29%) WebSockets
7 3 (0.97%) JDBC
7 3 (0.97%) JPA
7 3 (0.97%) JWT
8 2 (0.65%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.50%) IoT
2 17 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.85%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.21%) PKI
5 10 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.44%) Linux
2 19 (6.15%) Windows
3 6 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (45.63%) DevOps
2 97 (31.39%) CI/CD
3 84 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (24.92%) Agile
5 63 (20.39%) Cloud Security
6 60 (19.42%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (18.45%) Containerisation
8 46 (14.89%) Application Security
9 43 (13.92%) SDLC
10 40 (12.94%) Test Automation
11 39 (12.62%) Security Testing
12 36 (11.65%) Information Security
13 35 (11.33%) Security Architecture
14 34 (11.00%) Migration
14 34 (11.00%) Penetration Testing
15 33 (10.68%) Identity Access Management
15 33 (10.68%) Microservices
16 30 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (9.06%) Static Application Security Testing
18 27 (8.74%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.92%) Python
2 24 (7.77%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.83%) Bash
4 16 (5.18%) Java
5 12 (3.88%) SQL
6 11 (3.56%) C#
7 8 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.62%) Bicep
9 5 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.29%) C++
10 4 (1.29%) Ruby
11 3 (0.97%) PHP
12 2 (0.65%) R
13 1 (0.32%) C
13 1 (0.32%) Go
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 64 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.12%) Degree
4 13 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.88%) CISSP
6 11 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.29%) CISM
10 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) CEH
11 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.32%) CCIP
12 1 (0.32%) CCNA
12 1 (0.32%) CCNP
12 1 (0.32%) GIAC
12 1 (0.32%) MCSE
12 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.94%) NIST
2 23 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.88%) NCSC
4 11 (3.56%) QA
5 10 (3.24%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.94%) GDPR
7 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.29%) SLA
8 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.65%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) COSO
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (20.39%) Docker
2 14 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.56%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (31.72%) Terraform
2 64 (20.71%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.30%) Ansible
4 12 (3.88%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.56%) Puppet
6 9 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (2.27%) Grafana
9 6 (1.94%) Kibana
9 6 (1.94%) logstash
10 2 (0.65%) OPNET
10 2 (0.65%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.32%) Argo
11 1 (0.32%) CASB
11 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.32%) Istio
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.32%) SCOM
11 1 (0.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 42 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.41%) VMware
3 25 (8.09%) Micro Focus
4 21 (6.80%) Google
5 10 (3.24%) Splunk
6 8 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.94%) Oracle
7 6 (1.94%) SAP
8 5 (1.62%) Cisco
8 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.29%) Aruba
9 4 (1.29%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.29%) F5
9 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.29%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.29%) Teradata
10 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.65%) Qualys