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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 299 318
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +57
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 275 324 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.76% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.88% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 219 340
10th Percentile £440 £425 £481
25th Percentile £488 £505 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £738
90th Percentile £738 £794 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% -4.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 1
10th Percentile - £45.88 -
25th Percentile £27.13 £48.43 -
Median hourly rate £27.25 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.94% - -
75th Percentile £27.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 17 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
Top 16 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 17 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 +10 215 £600 -4.00% 372
Work from Home +60 120 £550 -11.58% 226
UK excluding London +41 117 £600 -2.99% 262
London -8 109 £600 -6.80% 155
South East +52 41 £625 -1.96% 59
North of England +12 23 £550 -10.13% 57
Midlands +24 17 £605 -6.10% 38
Scotland +21 17 £625 +4.17% 29
West Midlands +15 15 £615 -5.46% 21
North West +18 14 £500 -4.31% 34
South West +34 13 £680 +36.00% 44
Yorkshire +5 8 £575 -7.56% 18
Wales - 8 £478 - 10
East of England +7 3 £775 +868.75% 24
East Midlands +9 2 £440 -2.33% 16
North East - 1 £550 - 5

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 (1.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.73%) Camunda
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
4 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 116 (42.18%) Azure
2 88 (32.00%) AWS
3 45 (16.36%) GCP
4 34 (12.36%) GitHub
5 23 (8.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (6.91%) SaaS
6 19 (6.91%) Serverless
7 18 (6.55%) Azure AKS
7 18 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.36%) PaaS
11 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.64%) IaaS
13 9 (3.27%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.91%) Network Security
2 20 (7.27%) DNS
3 15 (5.45%) Firewall
4 14 (5.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.00%) HTTP
5 11 (4.00%) VPN
6 7 (2.55%) BGP
6 7 (2.55%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.18%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.18%) WAN
8 5 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (1.82%) DHCP
8 5 (1.82%) MPLS
8 5 (1.82%) NGFW
8 5 (1.82%) OSPF
8 5 (1.82%) VSAN
9 4 (1.45%) SSL
9 4 (1.45%) VLAN
10 3 (1.09%) FTP
10 3 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.82%) Power BI
4 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.36%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 41 (14.91%) Jenkins
2 40 (14.55%) GitLab
3 16 (5.82%) JIRA
4 14 (5.09%) Git
5 11 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.64%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.91%) Storybook
8 7 (2.55%) Snyk
9 6 (2.18%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.09%) Maven
12 3 (1.09%) Subversion
13 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.73%) Selenium
13 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.36%) Gatling
14 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.91%) Finance
3 25 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.45%) Banking
6 6 (2.18%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.82%) Legal
8 4 (1.45%) Retail
9 3 (1.09%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Automotive
10 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Military
10 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (32.00%) Architect
2 51 (18.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 39 (14.18%) Security Architect
4 36 (13.09%) Senior
5 21 (7.64%) Developer
5 21 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (7.27%) Consultant
7 17 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.18%) Lead
8 16 (5.82%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (5.82%) Security Engineer
9 15 (5.45%) Security Consultant
10 14 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.64%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Infrastructure Architect
14 8 (2.91%) ForgeRock Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.36%) React
2 17 (6.18%) OAuth
3 13 (4.73%) CSS
4 11 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 11 (4.00%) REST
4 11 (4.00%) RESTful
5 9 (3.27%) OpenID
6 8 (2.91%) AWS CDK
6 8 (2.91%) GraphQL
6 8 (2.91%) JSON
6 8 (2.91%) Node.js
6 8 (2.91%) SOAP
6 8 (2.91%) Tailwind CSS
7 7 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.55%) JDBC
7 7 (2.55%) Jest
7 7 (2.55%) OpenAPI
7 7 (2.55%) Playwright
7 7 (2.55%) Swagger
8 6 (2.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.45%) Security Posture
3 24 (8.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (7.27%) PKI
5 17 (6.18%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.73%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.27%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.18%) Replication
9 6 (2.18%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.91%) Linux
2 18 (6.55%) Windows
3 10 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.18%) CentOS
5 6 (2.18%) HPUX
5 6 (2.18%) Solaris
6 4 (1.45%) Unix
6 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (41.82%) CI/CD
2 94 (34.18%) DevOps
3 87 (31.64%) Agile
4 60 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (20.36%) Cloud Security
6 50 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.09%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (13.09%) Microservices
8 36 (13.09%) Threat Modelling
9 35 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (11.27%) Application Security
10 31 (11.27%) Static Application Security Testing
11 30 (10.91%) Identity Access Management
11 30 (10.91%) OWASP
12 29 (10.55%) Test Automation
12 29 (10.55%) TOGAF
13 27 (9.82%) Software Engineering
13 27 (9.82%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (9.45%) Roadmaps
15 24 (8.73%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.91%) Python
2 36 (13.09%) Java
3 34 (12.36%) Bash
4 29 (10.55%) PowerShell
5 27 (9.82%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.36%) SQL
8 8 (2.91%) Go
9 6 (2.18%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.82%) C#
10 5 (1.82%) Perl
11 4 (1.45%) Bicep
12 3 (1.09%) C++
12 3 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 2 (0.73%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 72 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.55%) CISSP
4 25 (9.09%) CISM
5 20 (7.27%) AWS Certification
6 17 (6.18%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.18%) Degree
7 16 (5.82%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.36%) CEH
8 12 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.27%) SANS
11 8 (2.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.55%) OSCP
13 6 (2.18%) CCSP
14 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.82%) MCSE
14 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.09%) NIST
2 30 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.55%) GDPR
4 16 (5.82%) GRC
5 12 (4.36%) NCSC
6 9 (3.27%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (2.18%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.18%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.82%) QA
10 4 (1.45%) COBIT
10 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.73%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (14.91%) Docker
2 10 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.09%) vSphere
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 55 (20.00%) Terraform
3 28 (10.18%) Ansible
4 13 (4.73%) Puppet
5 11 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.27%) Grafana
7 8 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.55%) Nessus
8 7 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.45%) Kibana
9 4 (1.45%) logstash
9 4 (1.45%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.45%) Salt
10 3 (1.09%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.73%) Argo
11 2 (0.73%) CASB
11 2 (0.73%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.73%) QRadar
11 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 40 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.73%) Qualys
3 18 (6.55%) Google
4 16 (5.82%) VMware
5 15 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.36%) Splunk
7 11 (4.00%) IBM
7 11 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 11 (4.00%) Ping Identity
7 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.64%) ForgeRock
9 8 (2.91%) Cisco
10 6 (2.18%) Oracle
10 6 (2.18%) Sun
10 6 (2.18%) Veracode
11 5 (1.82%) Ariba
11 5 (1.82%) Coverity
11 5 (1.82%) HP
11 5 (1.82%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.82%) Unisys