DevSecOps Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

DevSecOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 66 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.25% - 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £75,000 £50,309 £70,000
% change year-on-year +49.08% -28.13% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 668 809 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.92% 83.06% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 477 409 276
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,960 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year - -13.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £60,741 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,700 £77,500
North East median annual salary £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% -

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £60,000 - 4
DevSecOps
North East

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CRISC
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft