DevSecOps Job Trends in Leicestershire

DevSecOps
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.59% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 - -
75th Percentile £68,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £65,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 411 524 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 80.27% 86.75% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 274 227 250
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,500 £27,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £59,313
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,125
% change year-on-year -10.53% -8.87% +4.25%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 3 £67,000 - 4
DevSecOps
East Midlands

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (33.33%) NuGet
3 1 (33.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) GCIH
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike