DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 61 77
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +46
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 21 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.32% 0.90% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.05% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile £439 £422 £495
25th Percentile £461 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -7.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £539 £617 -
90th Percentile £600 £631 £705
Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £622 £600
% change year-on-year -20.26% +3.67% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 784 668 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.73% 85.86% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 415 751
10th Percentile £289 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £603
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 16
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £19.19 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%
75th Percentile £46.56 £37.50 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in West Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Leeds -5 19 £513 -7.87% 4
DevSecOps
Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) GCP
4 6 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 5 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
6 4 (19.05%) Figma
6 4 (19.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (14.29%) GitHub
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
8 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) Network Security
3 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) SSL
3 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (23.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) Git
3 5 (23.81%) GitLab
4 4 (19.05%) Storybook
5 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Security Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Calypso Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Technical Leader
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Bootstrap
1 4 (19.05%) CSS
1 4 (19.05%) CSS3
1 4 (19.05%) Express.js
1 4 (19.05%) HTML
1 4 (19.05%) HTML5
1 4 (19.05%) Next.js
1 4 (19.05%) Node.js
1 4 (19.05%) React
1 4 (19.05%) Redux
1 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) Flash
2 2 (9.52%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Blockchain
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 7 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 6 (28.57%) Zero Trust
5 5 (23.81%) Information Security
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) B2C
6 4 (19.05%) Data Security
6 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) SEO
6 4 (19.05%) SIEM
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Rust
3 2 (9.52%) Solidity
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
2 5 (23.81%) CISSP
3 3 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (14.29%) CCSP
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CCSK
4 2 (9.52%) CEH
4 2 (9.52%) CISA
4 2 (9.52%) CISM
4 2 (9.52%) OSCP
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (38.10%) NIST
2 7 (33.33%) GDPR
3 5 (23.81%) PCI DSS
4 4 (19.05%) SOC 2
5 3 (14.29%) PSD2
6 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (19.05%) F5
2 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
2 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.52%) Calypso
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Zscaler