DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

DevSecOps
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 78 101
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 30 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.94% 1.56% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.85% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 15
10th Percentile £354 £513 £495
25th Percentile £403 £612 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +3.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £606
90th Percentile £626 £647 £665
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,396 1,243 1,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.24% 84.21% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 741 1,201
10th Percentile £240 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £620
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 43 33
10th Percentile £15.68 £12.23 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.55 £17.22
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -14.63% +7.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.25 £26.78
90th Percentile £72.63 £46.75 £44.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.39% +51.91%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Yorkshire

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
South Yorkshire -13 18 £470 -24.44% 3
West Yorkshire +2 11 £513 -3.53% 1
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (13.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 17 (56.67%) Azure
3 15 (50.00%) GCP
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (16.67%) GitHub
5 5 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (13.33%) Akamai
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (13.33%) AWS KMS
6 4 (13.33%) Figma
6 4 (13.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) SSL
2 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.33%) VPN
3 3 (10.00%) Network Security
4 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
1 9 (30.00%) Postman
1 9 (30.00%) SoapUI
2 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Git
4 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (13.33%) Storybook
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
1 8 (26.67%) Test Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Lead
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Technical Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Bootstrap
1 4 (13.33%) CSS
1 4 (13.33%) CSS3
1 4 (13.33%) Express.js
1 4 (13.33%) HTML
1 4 (13.33%) HTML5
1 4 (13.33%) Next.js
1 4 (13.33%) Node.js
1 4 (13.33%) React
1 4 (13.33%) Redux
1 4 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) HPUX
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Solaris
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (46.67%) Cloud Security
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
4 11 (36.67%) Agile
5 9 (30.00%) API Testing
5 9 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (30.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Scrum
5 9 (30.00%) Security Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Kanban
6 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Test Management
7 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.00%) Threat Detection
9 5 (16.67%) Application Security
9 5 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
10 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
10 4 (13.33%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) CISSP
2 8 (26.67%) CISM
2 8 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (36.67%) NIST
3 9 (30.00%) GDPR
4 7 (23.33%) PCI DSS
5 4 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (10.00%) SOC 2
7 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) CSIRT
3 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.00%) Grafana
5 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
5 2 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) CyberArk
2 9 (30.00%) Google
3 8 (26.67%) BeyondTrust
3 8 (26.67%) F5
3 8 (26.67%) Thycotic
4 5 (16.67%) Splunk
5 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.33%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco
7 1 (3.33%) IBM
7 1 (3.33%) Imperva
7 1 (3.33%) Unisys
7 1 (3.33%) Zscaler