DevSecOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 521 415
Rank change year-on-year +106 -106 +97
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 164 262 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.35% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.43% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 201 172
10th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £42,600
25th Percentile £58,000 £53,346 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £78,688 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £98,474 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £81,928
% change year-on-year - -8.46% +2.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Midlands +70 42 £75,000 +3.45% 229
South East +29 40 £62,500 -1.57% 367
North of England +50 33 £74,500 +14.62% 255
West Midlands +41 30 £75,000 +3.45% 123
South West +98 27 £70,000 -6.67% 150
North West +20 24 £74,500 +14.62% 121
Scotland +110 15 £62,500 -5.66% 67
East Midlands +47 12 £58,000 -20.00% 90
Yorkshire +53 7 £61,500 +11.47% 103
East of England +47 6 £64,750 +17.36% 179
Wales +41 2 £58,000 - 35
North East +41 2 £72,750 +3.93% 31
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (18.90%) Confluence
2 6 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.05%) Appian
4 4 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.32%) Azure
2 42 (25.61%) AWS
3 30 (18.29%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (15.85%) PaaS
5 14 (8.54%) SaaS
6 13 (7.93%) Serverless
7 11 (6.71%) GitHub
8 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.27%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (3.66%) IaaS
12 5 (3.05%) Azure App Service
12 5 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.05%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.05%) MinIO
13 3 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.93%) Firewall
2 7 (4.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.44%) IPv4
3 4 (2.44%) VPN
4 2 (1.22%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.22%) Network Security
4 2 (1.22%) OSPF
4 2 (1.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.07%) Relational Database
2 27 (16.46%) MySQL
3 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.61%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (21.95%) Git
2 31 (18.90%) JIRA
3 30 (18.29%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.27%) GitLab
5 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.66%) Selenium
5 6 (3.66%) Snyk
5 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.05%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Yeoman
General
1 33 (20.12%) Finance
2 27 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.49%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.27%) Banking
5 7 (4.27%) Electronics
6 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.05%) Marketing
7 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.44%) Military
8 3 (1.83%) Retail
9 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.22%) Automotive
9 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (39.63%) Senior
2 63 (38.41%) Software Engineer
3 54 (32.93%) Senior Software Engineer
4 27 (16.46%) Lead
5 25 (15.24%) Security Engineer
6 18 (10.98%) IT Engineer
7 17 (10.37%) Architect
8 16 (9.76%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Developer
11 7 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.05%) Applications Architect
14 3 (1.83%) AWS Engineer
14 3 (1.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 3 (1.83%) Head of Engineering
14 3 (1.83%) Java Engineer
14 3 (1.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.34%) .NET
2 19 (11.59%) YAML
3 9 (5.49%) React
4 7 (4.27%) HTML
5 6 (3.66%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.66%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.66%) ARM Templates
5 6 (3.66%) Azure Blueprints
5 6 (3.66%) CSS
6 5 (3.05%) Kafka
6 5 (3.05%) SOAP
6 5 (3.05%) Spring
6 5 (3.05%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.44%) Node.js
7 4 (2.44%) OAuth
7 4 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.44%) OpenID
8 3 (1.83%) Middleware
8 3 (1.83%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.24%) Security Posture
2 23 (14.02%) Cloud Native
3 19 (11.59%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.49%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.27%) Social Media
7 6 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.05%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.22%) PKI
11 2 (1.22%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.44%) Windows
2 42 (25.61%) Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (70.12%) Agile
2 113 (68.90%) CI/CD
3 80 (48.78%) Test Automation
4 78 (47.56%) Software Engineering
5 64 (39.02%) Computer Science
6 52 (31.71%) DevOps
7 49 (29.88%) Coaching
8 46 (28.05%) Software Testing
9 39 (23.78%) Mathematics
10 35 (21.34%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (20.12%) Mentoring
12 31 (18.90%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (18.29%) Continuous Deployment
14 28 (17.07%) Application Security
15 26 (15.85%) SDLC
16 25 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (14.63%) Security Testing
17 24 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
18 23 (14.02%) Cloud Security
18 23 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.02%) Python
2 54 (32.93%) Java
3 41 (25.00%) Rust
4 35 (21.34%) C#
5 24 (14.63%) PowerShell
6 16 (9.76%) C++
6 16 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.66%) Bash
8 6 (3.66%) Bicep
9 5 (3.05%) SQL
10 4 (2.44%) R
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
11 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (43.29%) Degree
2 36 (21.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (18.29%) Security Cleared
4 22 (13.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (13.41%) Master's Degree
5 12 (7.32%) CISSP
5 12 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 11 (6.71%) CISM
7 10 (6.10%) CEH
7 10 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (5.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (4.27%) CISA
9 7 (4.27%) DBS Check
10 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.83%) SANS
12 2 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.22%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 26 (15.85%) NIST
2 23 (14.02%) NCSC
3 10 (6.10%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.83%) PMBOK
6 2 (1.22%) COBIT
6 2 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (9.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (28.66%) Ansible
2 26 (15.85%) Terraform
3 19 (11.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.05%) Puppet
5 4 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.22%) Kibana
6 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (18.90%) Atlassian
2 20 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.88%) Oracle
4 7 (4.27%) VMware
5 5 (3.05%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (3.05%) Black Duck
5 5 (3.05%) UiPath
6 4 (2.44%) ForgeRock
6 4 (2.44%) SAP
7 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.22%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco
9 1 (0.61%) Coverity
9 1 (0.61%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.61%) Foundry
9 1 (0.61%) HP
9 1 (0.61%) Palantir
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat