DevSecOps Job Trends in Birmingham

DevSecOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 121 97
Rank change year-on-year +31 -24 +58
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 10 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.73% 0.41% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.49% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £74,500 - £71,500
25th Percentile £75,625 £46,713 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -23.68% +31.94%
75th Percentile £83,125 £100,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £83,500 £104,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £87,500 £66,250 £95,000
% change year-on-year +32.08% -30.26% +40.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

DevSecOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,166 1,850 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.86% 83.82% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 820 893 946
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,427
25th Percentile £41,974 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,468 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,393 £90,000 £80,070
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.10%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Birmingham

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Information
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (10.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Register
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft