DevSecOps Job Trends in England

DevSecOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 385 392
Rank change year-on-year +72 +7 -71
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 581 262 422
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.69% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 373 154 306
10th Percentile £58,850 £53,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.76% -2.39%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,438 £103,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,375 £115,000
UK median annual salary £83,774 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.10% - -6.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,454 38,135 55,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.76% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 21,803 32,273
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,571 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,040
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in England

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -17 204 £100,000 +25.00% 461
South East +51 127 £75,000 -11.76% 118
South West +2 104 £86,731 +19.63% 117
North of England -3 69 £85,000 +13.33% 117
Midlands -5 64 £80,000 +6.67% 49
North West +9 38 £83,774 +12.45% 75
West Midlands -23 33 £88,000 -4.86% 29
East Midlands +1 31 £67,500 +3.85% 20
Yorkshire -25 23 £85,000 -10.53% 32
North East -56 8 £95,000 +26.67% 11
East of England -28 7 £90,000 +22.87% 30
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (2.75%) Confluence
2 13 (2.24%) Apache
3 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.52%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 257 (44.23%) AWS
2 247 (42.51%) Azure
3 89 (15.32%) GitHub
4 80 (13.77%) Serverless
5 70 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (11.70%) GCP
7 46 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (7.92%) SaaS
8 45 (7.75%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (4.99%) Azure AKS
13 28 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (4.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 22 (3.79%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.02%) Network Security
2 26 (4.48%) VPN
3 13 (2.24%) Firewall
4 10 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
5 9 (1.55%) MQTT
6 8 (1.38%) IPv4
7 7 (1.20%) Broadband
8 6 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.69%) DNS
9 4 (0.69%) SSH
9 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.34%) VLAN
11 1 (0.17%) DHCP
11 1 (0.17%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.23%) NoSQL
2 32 (5.51%) Redis
3 28 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 23 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.72%) Metadata
10 10 (1.72%) MySQL
11 9 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.38%) Big Data
13 6 (1.03%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.86%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.69%) Flink
15 4 (0.69%) Power BI
16 3 (0.52%) Airbyte
16 3 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 99 (17.04%) Git
2 64 (11.02%) GitLab
3 48 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 29 (4.99%) Snyk
5 23 (3.96%) JIRA
6 11 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.55%) MSI
8 4 (0.69%) Maven
8 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.34%) Ant
10 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.34%) Gradle
10 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.34%) JUnit
10 2 (0.34%) Mockito
10 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) ERwin
General
1 143 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.22%) Finance
3 57 (9.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.48%) Aerospace
7 23 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.44%) Retail
9 18 (3.10%) Law
10 13 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.07%) Banking
12 9 (1.55%) Marketing
13 7 (1.20%) Military
14 6 (1.03%) Automotive
14 6 (1.03%) Electronics
14 6 (1.03%) Legal
15 5 (0.86%) Aviation
16 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.52%) Digital Health
17 3 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 126 (21.69%) Architect
2 99 (17.04%) Senior
3 92 (15.83%) Lead
4 82 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 72 (12.39%) Security Architect
6 68 (11.70%) Developer
7 55 (9.47%) Security Engineer
8 52 (8.95%) Software Engineer
9 41 (7.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 39 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (6.02%) Senior Architect
12 31 (5.34%) Consultant
13 30 (5.16%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (4.99%) Cloud Security Architect
14 29 (4.99%) Lead Developer
15 26 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (4.30%) Java Developer
16 25 (4.30%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 25 (4.30%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (31.50%) Terraform
2 65 (11.19%) Node.js
3 45 (7.75%) React
4 36 (6.20%) .NET
5 35 (6.02%) AngularJS
6 27 (4.65%) RESTful
7 26 (4.48%) REST
8 21 (3.61%) Vue
9 19 (3.27%) Kafka
10 17 (2.93%) Spring
10 17 (2.93%) Spring Boot
11 14 (2.41%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.07%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.72%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (1.72%) LangChain
13 10 (1.72%) YAML
14 9 (1.55%) CSS
14 9 (1.55%) GeoJSON
14 9 (1.55%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.72%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.64%) Security Posture
3 38 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.99%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.82%) Product Ownership
8 25 (4.30%) Onboarding
9 23 (3.96%) AI Agents
9 23 (3.96%) Public Cloud
10 20 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (3.44%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.07%) Podcast
12 9 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.38%) PKI
13 8 (1.38%) Robotics
14 7 (1.20%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.29%) Linux
2 65 (11.19%) Windows
3 26 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.75%) VMS
5 8 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.03%) CentOS
6 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.86%) Android
8 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 241 (41.48%) DevOps
3 214 (36.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (33.56%) Agile
5 184 (31.67%) AI
6 160 (27.54%) Cloud Security
7 136 (23.41%) Software Engineering
8 127 (21.86%) Cybersecurity
9 124 (21.34%) Containerisation
10 109 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (17.90%) Microservices
12 102 (17.56%) Observability
13 97 (16.70%) SDLC
14 92 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
14 92 (15.83%) Test Automation
15 72 (12.39%) Application Security
15 72 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (12.22%) Security Architecture
17 70 (12.05%) Mentoring
17 70 (12.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 146 (25.13%) Python
2 85 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 84 (14.46%) TypeScript
4 83 (14.29%) Java
5 72 (12.39%) Bash
6 67 (11.53%) JavaScript
7 62 (10.67%) SQL
8 39 (6.71%) Bicep
9 32 (5.51%) C#
10 27 (4.65%) Kotlin
11 25 (4.30%) Go
11 25 (4.30%) Rust
12 16 (2.75%) C++
13 13 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (2.24%) Scala
14 10 (1.72%) C
15 7 (1.20%) Ruby
16 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 96 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.39%) Degree
4 53 (9.12%) DV Cleared
5 37 (6.37%) AWS Certification
6 36 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (5.68%) CISSP
8 29 (4.99%) Azure Certification
9 27 (4.65%) CISM
10 23 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (3.10%) OSCP
13 14 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (2.41%) Master's Degree
14 13 (2.24%) CEH
15 9 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.55%) CCNA
15 9 (1.55%) CCSP
15 9 (1.55%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (8.78%) NIST
3 41 (7.06%) GRC
4 30 (5.16%) GDPR
5 29 (4.99%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.41%) NCSC
6 14 (2.41%) QA
7 10 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.72%) NIST 800
7 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.20%) WCAG
10 5 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.86%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.86%) MISRA
11 4 (0.69%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.34%) COBIT
13 2 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 132 (22.72%) Docker
2 47 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 42 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (4.48%) vSphere
5 25 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.38%) Squid
7 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.03%) Firmware
9 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 178 (30.64%) Kubernetes
2 58 (9.98%) Ansible
3 25 (4.30%) Grafana
4 22 (3.79%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.27%) Argo
6 18 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.72%) Puppet
8 8 (1.38%) Packer
8 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.20%) Nessus
10 6 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.86%) Podman
12 4 (0.69%) Istio
12 4 (0.69%) Kibana
12 4 (0.69%) linkerd
13 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.34%) Mesos
15 1 (0.17%) Cilium
Vendors
1 106 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.92%) VMware
3 35 (6.02%) CrowdStrike
4 32 (5.51%) Tenable
5 25 (4.30%) Palo Alto
6 24 (4.13%) Oracle
7 22 (3.79%) Splunk
8 17 (2.93%) Red Hat
9 16 (2.75%) Google
10 12 (2.07%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.72%) New Relic
12 7 (1.20%) Guidewire
13 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.86%) Databricks
14 5 (0.86%) Qualys
15 4 (0.69%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.69%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.69%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.69%) Workday
15 4 (0.69%) Zerto