DevSecOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevSecOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 81 105 111
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +58
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 16 6 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 0.31% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.37% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 18
10th Percentile £479 - £514
25th Percentile £572 £625 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 - £738
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the West Midlands

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the West Midlands

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the West Midlands

DevSecOps
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 within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +21 5 £615 - 3
Herefordshire - 5 £700 -
Worcestershire - 5 £700 -
Warwickshire - 4 £681 - 6
Shropshire - 2 £461 -
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Akamai
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Advisor
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) Next.js
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (25.00%) SIEM
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Information Security
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) User Stories
6 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CISSP
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (12.50%) APMP
3 2 (12.50%) CCSP
3 2 (12.50%) CEH
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) CISM
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CISA
4 1 (6.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) NCSC
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) CASB
5 1 (6.25%) Kibana
5 1 (6.25%) logstash
5 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) TOWER Software
3 1 (6.25%) Ariba
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Imperva
3 1 (6.25%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk