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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 528 401
Rank change year-on-year +108 -127 +110
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 164 252 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.35% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.42% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 94 193 175
10th Percentile £49,127 £47,500 £42,900
25th Percentile £58,000 £53,346 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £78,063 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £98,474 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -

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 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 22 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 22 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 +45 43 £75,000 +3.45% 68
South East +36 38 £62,500 -2.72% 109
North of England +53 36 £75,000 +15.38% 94
West Midlands +55 31 £75,000 +3.45% 37
North West +14 27 £75,000 +15.38% 52
South West +95 25 £70,000 -6.67% 65
Scotland +117 14 £62,500 -5.66% 36
East Midlands +30 12 £58,000 -20.00% 28
Yorkshire +60 7 £61,500 +11.47% 34
East of England +41 7 £71,500 +29.59% 48
Wales +38 2 £58,000 - 16
North East +38 2 £72,750 +3.93% 8
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 1 (0.61%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.32%) Azure
2 40 (24.39%) AWS
3 28 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (15.24%) PaaS
5 14 (8.54%) SaaS
6 11 (6.71%) GitHub
6 11 (6.71%) Serverless
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.27%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.66%) IaaS
11 5 (3.05%) Azure App Service
11 5 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.05%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.05%) GCP
11 5 (3.05%) MinIO
12 3 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.98%) Firewall
2 12 (7.32%) 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 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.61%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (21.34%) Git
2 31 (18.90%) JIRA
3 29 (17.68%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.66%) GitLab
4 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.66%) Selenium
4 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.05%) Robot Framework
5 5 (3.05%) Snyk
6 2 (1.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Yeoman
General
1 29 (17.68%) Finance
1 29 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.27%) Banking
5 6 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.44%) Electronics
7 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.44%) Military
8 3 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (39.02%) Senior
2 60 (36.59%) Software Engineer
3 54 (32.93%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (15.24%) Lead
5 23 (14.02%) Security Engineer
6 22 (13.41%) Architect
7 18 (10.98%) IT Engineer
8 16 (9.76%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Developer
11 7 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Applications Architect
12 5 (3.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Senior Developer
13 3 (1.83%) AWS Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Head of Engineering
13 3 (1.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.73%) .NET
2 17 (10.37%) YAML
3 8 (4.88%) React
4 6 (3.66%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.66%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Blueprints
4 6 (3.66%) HTML
5 5 (3.05%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.05%) CSS
5 5 (3.05%) Kafka
5 5 (3.05%) SOAP
6 4 (2.44%) OAuth
6 4 (2.44%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.44%) OpenID
7 3 (1.83%) Spring
7 3 (1.83%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.83%) XML
8 2 (1.22%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.22%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.90%) Security Posture
2 24 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 21 (12.80%) Cloud Native
4 13 (7.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (7.32%) Social Media
6 11 (6.71%) Public Cloud
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%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.22%) PKI
11 2 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 51 (31.10%) Windows
2 41 (25.00%) Linux
3 12 (7.32%) Windows Vista
4 2 (1.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (68.29%) Agile
1 112 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 79 (48.17%) Test Automation
3 74 (45.12%) Software Engineering
4 68 (41.46%) Computer Science
5 51 (31.10%) DevOps
6 48 (29.27%) Coaching
7 45 (27.44%) Software Testing
8 40 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (23.78%) Mathematics
10 31 (18.90%) Continuous Integration
10 31 (18.90%) Mentoring
11 30 (18.29%) Continuous Deployment
12 29 (17.68%) Cloud Security
13 28 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (17.07%) Vulnerability Management
14 27 (16.46%) Application Security
15 26 (15.85%) Information Security
16 23 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (14.02%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.20%) Python
2 51 (31.10%) Java
3 41 (25.00%) Rust
4 35 (21.34%) C#
5 24 (14.63%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.15%) C++
7 13 (7.93%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.66%) Bash
8 6 (3.66%) Bicep
9 5 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.44%) R
10 4 (2.44%) SQL
11 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (45.73%) Degree
2 36 (21.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (16.46%) Security Cleared
4 26 (15.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (15.85%) Master's Degree
5 17 (10.37%) CISSP
6 16 (9.76%) CISM
7 15 (9.15%) CEH
7 15 (9.15%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (8.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (7.32%) CISA
9 12 (7.32%) DBS Check
9 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
10 10 (6.10%) DV Cleared
11 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.83%) SANS
13 2 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.22%) ISTQB
13 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (18.29%) NIST
2 22 (13.41%) NCSC
3 15 (9.15%) 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 16 (9.76%) 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 25 (15.24%) Terraform
3 19 (11.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.05%) Puppet
5 4 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
7 1 (0.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (18.29%) Atlassian
2 18 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.27%) VMware
4 5 (3.05%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (3.05%) Black Duck
4 5 (3.05%) UiPath
5 4 (2.44%) ForgeRock
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle
6 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.22%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.22%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Coverity
8 1 (0.61%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) HP
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir