DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevSecOps Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +52
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 12 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.45% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile - - £529
25th Percentile - - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £612 £613
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -0.08% -12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £725 £678
90th Percentile £850 - £706
England median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -14.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,029 1,562 1,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.49% 93.31% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 996 1,153
10th Percentile £260 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £588
90th Percentile £683 £709 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.43% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 61 66
10th Percentile £13.11 £13.95 £15.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +4.70% +28.39%
75th Percentile £30.00 £32.25 £34.50
90th Percentile £46.18 £50.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Herefordshire -10 10 £700 +14.38%
Worcestershire - 10 £700 -
Birmingham - 1 £525 - 1
DevSecOps Engineer
England

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 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 across the West Midlands region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) Docker
3 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) GitHub
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) NCSC
3 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 10 (83.33%) YAML
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) CISSP

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (8.33%) ITSM
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft