DevSecOps Job Trends in Leeds

DevSecOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 86 99
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +42
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 7 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.53% 0.099% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.11% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £61,625 - £37,750
25th Percentile £67,813 £91,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +8.82% +30.77%
75th Percentile £75,938 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £79,875 - £89,379
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -21.62% +8.82% +41.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,054 903 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 88.97% 92.35%
Number of salaries quoted 693 512 943
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Leeds

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in Leeds

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Datadog
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Security
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Red Team
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Kotlin
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro