DevSecOps Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevSecOps Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 - 559
Rank change year-on-year - - +204
Permanent jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 17 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.040% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 16 0 11
10th Percentile £43,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £63,125
90th Percentile £77,750 - £63,750
UK median annual salary £78,750 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South East - 9 £50,000 - 3
South West - 5 £50,000 - 5
East of England - 2 £60,000 -
North of England - 1 £60,000 - 3
North West - 1 £60,000 - 1
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 17 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 14 (82.35%) Terraform
3 13 (76.47%) AWS
3 13 (76.47%) DevOps
4 12 (70.59%) Ansible
5 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
6 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
6 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
7 9 (52.94%) Git
7 9 (52.94%) Linux
8 8 (47.06%) Agile
8 8 (47.06%) Docker
8 8 (47.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 8 (47.06%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
8 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (47.06%) Python
8 8 (47.06%) Scrum
8 8 (47.06%) Secrets Management
8 8 (47.06%) Test Management
9 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (41.18%) Black Duck
9 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
9 7 (41.18%) Coverity
9 7 (41.18%) GCP
9 7 (41.18%) Grafana
9 7 (41.18%) Robot Framework

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (17.65%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Robot Framework
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) Snyk
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (17.65%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
5 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Blockchain
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 17 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
5 8 (47.06%) Agile
5 8 (47.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 8 (47.06%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (47.06%) Scrum
5 8 (47.06%) Secrets Management
5 8 (47.06%) Test Management
6 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
7 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
8 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
8 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
9 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Elixir
4 3 (17.65%) Erlang
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Ansible
3 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
4 7 (41.18%) Grafana
5 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Black Duck
1 7 (41.18%) Coverity
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.88%) Google