DevSecOps Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

DevSecOps Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median DevSecOps Engineer salary in Bristol is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.14% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £62,500 - £60,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,955 1,320 1,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.24% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 767 1,391
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,695 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,945 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -2.70% +8.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.48% +0.50%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevSecOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 16 January 2026, DevSecOps Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform