DevSecOps Job Trends

DevSecOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 412 311
Rank change year-on-year +24 -101 +12
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 276 308 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.63% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 184 194 292
10th Percentile £47,875 £46,713 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,625 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in the UK

DevSecOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DevSecOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the UK 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
England +40 260 £82,250 +6.13% 180
London +26 139 £92,500 -2.63% 49
UK excluding London +45 117 £75,000 +7.14% 148
Work from Home +17 60 £79,750 +16.85% 70
South East +55 40 £83,500 +6.03% 48
North of England +11 33 £70,000 -6.67% 36
South West +2 18 £75,000 -6.25% 33
North West +10 16 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Midlands +1 14 £72,750 +3.93% 16
Yorkshire 0 12 £66,250 -28.38% 20
East of England +31 10 £95,000 +12.43% 11
East Midlands -3 6 £67,250 - 9
West Midlands -6 6 £87,500 +25.00% 7
North East +12 5 £67,500 +34.17% 7
Wales +8 1 £65,000 +29.20% 2
Scotland +3 1 £85,000 +68.96% 5

DevSecOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (3.99%) Confluence
2 7 (2.54%) Apache
2 7 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.45%) Appian
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.09%) IIS
4 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.09%) WordPress
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 180 (65.22%) Azure
2 142 (51.45%) AWS
3 67 (24.28%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (20.29%) GCP
5 52 (18.84%) GitHub
6 40 (14.49%) Serverless
7 37 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (9.06%) PaaS
10 20 (7.25%) SaaS
11 19 (6.88%) OpenShift
12 15 (5.43%) Entra ID
13 13 (4.71%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.99%) H2O.ai
15 10 (3.62%) Azure AKS
16 9 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (2.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.61%) DNS
1 21 (7.61%) Firewall
2 8 (2.90%) HTTP
3 7 (2.54%) Network Security
3 7 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.54%) VPN
4 5 (1.81%) DSL
5 4 (1.45%) LAN
5 4 (1.45%) VoIP
5 4 (1.45%) WAN
6 3 (1.09%) DHCP
6 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.72%) SCCP
8 1 (0.36%) AMQP
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) Wireless
8 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.97%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 12 (4.35%) Metadata
4 9 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.45%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (14.49%) Git
1 40 (14.49%) Jenkins
2 35 (12.68%) GitLab
3 22 (7.97%) Snyk
4 21 (7.61%) Selenium
5 19 (6.88%) Robot Framework
6 12 (4.35%) JIRA
7 9 (3.26%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.90%) Subversion
9 5 (1.81%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.45%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.45%) JUnit
11 3 (1.09%) Balsamiq
11 3 (1.09%) JMeter
11 3 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.72%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.72%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
13 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (27.90%) Finance
2 68 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.87%) Law
5 21 (7.61%) Manufacturing
6 17 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.07%) Banking
7 14 (5.07%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.35%) Legal
9 9 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.90%) Marketing
11 7 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.54%) Retail
12 5 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Aviation
14 3 (1.09%) Back Office
14 3 (1.09%) Military
15 2 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 56 (20.29%) Senior
2 53 (19.20%) Lead
3 41 (14.86%) Architect
4 32 (11.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 32 (11.59%) Security Engineer
5 27 (9.78%) Developer
6 26 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.80%) Consultant
8 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (4.71%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Security Architect
11 11 (3.99%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (3.26%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
13 8 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.90%) DevOps Consultant
13 8 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Consultant
13 8 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.78%) Node.js
2 26 (9.42%) YAML
3 22 (7.97%) React
4 19 (6.88%) AngularJS
5 18 (6.52%) .NET
5 18 (6.52%) REST
6 11 (3.99%) .NET Framework
6 11 (3.99%) FastAPI
6 11 (3.99%) Keras
6 11 (3.99%) PyTorch
6 11 (3.99%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.26%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.26%) JSON
7 9 (3.26%) Spring
7 9 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.26%) Vue
8 6 (2.17%) LangChain
8 6 (2.17%) RESTful
9 5 (1.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 62 (22.46%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.49%) Security Posture
3 25 (9.06%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.97%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.07%) Data Centre
6 12 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.99%) Low-Code
7 11 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (3.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.17%) PKI
10 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.45%) Spread Betting
12 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.72%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.22%) Linux
2 35 (12.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.81%) Unix
3 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.09%) VMS
5 2 (0.72%) Android
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (67.75%) CI/CD
2 155 (56.16%) DevOps
3 114 (41.30%) Agile
3 114 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (25.72%) Test Automation
5 62 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (22.10%) AI
7 57 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (20.65%) Mentoring
8 54 (19.57%) Cloud Security
9 51 (18.48%) Containerisation
10 50 (18.12%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (16.30%) OWASP
11 45 (16.30%) Roadmaps
12 43 (15.58%) Software Engineering
13 41 (14.86%) SDLC
14 39 (14.13%) Application Security
14 39 (14.13%) Computer Science
15 38 (13.77%) Scrum
16 37 (13.41%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.54%) Python
2 40 (14.49%) PowerShell
3 35 (12.68%) Java
4 32 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.87%) Bash
6 25 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.80%) C#
8 14 (5.07%) Bicep
8 14 (5.07%) Go
8 14 (5.07%) SQL
9 7 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.45%) Rust
11 3 (1.09%) Elixir
11 3 (1.09%) Erlang
11 3 (1.09%) VBScript
12 2 (0.72%) C
12 2 (0.72%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.48%) Degree
3 39 (14.13%) DV Cleared
4 32 (11.59%) SC Cleared
5 30 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (10.51%) Master's Degree
7 14 (5.07%) CISSP
8 10 (3.62%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.26%) OSCP
9 9 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.45%) CREST Certified
13 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.09%) CCNA
13 3 (1.09%) CEH
13 3 (1.09%) CITP
13 3 (1.09%) GCIH
14 2 (0.72%) CCSP
14 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (15.22%) NIST
3 21 (7.61%) NCSC
4 18 (6.52%) GDPR
5 12 (4.35%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.62%) PCI DSS
6 10 (3.62%) QA
6 10 (3.62%) SLA
7 8 (2.90%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.54%) GRC
9 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
9 6 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.09%) WCAG
12 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.72%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (19.57%) Docker
2 21 (7.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.45%) XenApp
3 4 (1.45%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 98 (35.51%) Terraform
2 68 (24.64%) Kubernetes
3 43 (15.58%) Ansible
4 23 (8.33%) Grafana
5 18 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.16%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.90%) SCCM
8 5 (1.81%) Argo
8 5 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.09%) Istio
9 3 (1.09%) linkerd
9 3 (1.09%) Mesos
10 2 (0.72%) CASB
11 1 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.36%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.36%) Packer
11 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.88%) Black Duck
2 19 (6.88%) Coverity
3 16 (5.80%) Atlassian
3 16 (5.80%) Oracle
4 14 (5.07%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.35%) Databricks
5 12 (4.35%) Dell
5 12 (4.35%) Google
6 11 (3.99%) NVIDIA
7 7 (2.54%) VMware
8 5 (1.81%) Okta
8 5 (1.81%) Qualys
9 4 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.45%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.45%) Citrix
9 4 (1.45%) UiPath
10 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.09%) Sitecore