DevSecOps Jobs

DevSecOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 389 324
Rank change year-on-year -21 -65 +112
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 376 535 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.69% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.78% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 217 294 531
10th Percentile £54,793 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,469 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +3.45%

All Process and 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 56,079 68,806 105,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.35% 88.70% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 51,337 64,382
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £34,452
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps.

Salary trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 17 February 2025.

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 17 February 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
England -17 349 £75,000 - 120
UK excluding London +51 215 £60,000 - 53
London -35 146 £90,000 +5.88% 72
Work from Home -32 89 £75,000 +7.14% 290
Midlands +36 61 £75,000 +25.00% 8
North of England +46 58 £54,793 -12.33% 13
North West +28 50 £54,793 -15.70% 7
West Midlands +26 46 £75,000 +20.00% 5
South East +14 36 £58,000 -35.56% 15
South West +10 36 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East Midlands +16 15 £58,000 -3.33% 3
Scotland +54 13 £58,000 +10.48% 5
East of England +5 8 £63,500 -23.03%
Yorkshire +50 6 £58,000 +5.12% 4
Wales - 3 £58,000 -
North East +20 2 £62,375 -10.89% 2

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 39 (10.37%) Confluence
2 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (4.79%) Simulink
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 149 (39.63%) Azure
2 131 (34.84%) AWS
3 40 (10.64%) GitHub
4 39 (10.37%) GCP
5 33 (8.78%) PaaS
6 32 (8.51%) SaaS
7 25 (6.65%) IaaS
8 23 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.59%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.52%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (3.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 14 (3.72%) Amazon ELB
14 14 (3.72%) AWS CloudTrail
14 14 (3.72%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (3.46%) OCI
16 12 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.17%) Firewall
2 32 (8.51%) Intrusion Detection
3 23 (6.12%) Network Security
4 14 (3.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.80%) NetScaler
5 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.53%) HTTP
6 2 (0.53%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.53%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 28 (7.45%) MySQL
3 16 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.53%) GIS
6 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.27%) Big Data
7 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.27%) Redis
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (11.44%) JIRA
2 39 (10.37%) Git
3 31 (8.24%) Jenkins
4 29 (7.71%) Bitbucket
5 26 (6.91%) SonarQube
6 18 (4.79%) Rational Rhapsody
7 17 (4.52%) GitLab
8 6 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.80%) AppScan
9 3 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) JUnit
11 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 80 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.74%) Finance
3 63 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.19%) Banking
6 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.06%) Automotive
7 4 (1.06%) Electronics
7 4 (1.06%) Marketing
7 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.80%) Law
8 3 (0.80%) Military
9 2 (0.53%) Legal
9 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.53%) Publishing
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 125 (33.24%) Senior
2 94 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 77 (20.48%) Senior Software Engineer
4 53 (14.10%) Architect
5 47 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 43 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 41 (10.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 31 (8.24%) Security Architect
9 25 (6.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 25 (6.65%) Lead
10 16 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) IT Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.46%) Consultant
13 12 (3.19%) Service Manager
14 11 (2.93%) Developer
15 9 (2.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 8 (2.13%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.78%) .NET
2 31 (8.24%) Azure Blueprints
3 19 (5.05%) ARM Templates
4 16 (4.26%) REST
5 13 (3.46%) OAuth
5 13 (3.46%) OpenID
5 13 (3.46%) SAML
6 10 (2.66%) SailPoint
7 9 (2.39%) LDAP
8 6 (1.60%) React
9 5 (1.33%) SLSA
10 3 (0.80%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.80%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.80%) Node.js
10 3 (0.80%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.80%) SOAP
10 3 (0.80%) XML
10 3 (0.80%) YAML
11 2 (0.53%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.36%) Management Information System
2 46 (12.23%) Security Posture
3 34 (9.04%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.65%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (5.32%) Social Media
5 20 (5.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 17 (4.52%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Blog
10 5 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (1.33%) PKI
11 4 (1.06%) IoT
11 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.06%) Robotics
12 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.02%) Linux
2 58 (15.43%) Windows
3 20 (5.32%) Windows Vista
4 5 (1.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) CentOS
5 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (54.52%) CI/CD
2 176 (46.81%) Agile
3 138 (36.70%) Software Engineering
4 107 (28.46%) DevOps
5 101 (26.86%) Test Automation
6 93 (24.73%) Cloud Security
7 92 (24.47%) Computer Science
8 86 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (21.81%) Software Testing
10 81 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
11 75 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (17.02%) Mathematics
13 62 (16.49%) Information Security
14 58 (15.43%) Containerisation
15 52 (13.83%) Incident Response
16 49 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (11.97%) Security Architecture
18 43 (11.44%) Risk Management
18 43 (11.44%) SDLC
19 41 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (32.45%) Python
2 94 (25.00%) Java
3 65 (17.29%) Rust
4 37 (9.84%) C++
5 31 (8.24%) C#
5 31 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 22 (5.85%) Bash
7 11 (2.93%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.06%) Bicep
9 4 (1.06%) SQL
10 3 (0.80%) Go
10 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.53%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 127 (33.78%) Degree
2 56 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (10.37%) CISSP
5 36 (9.57%) Master's Degree
6 28 (7.45%) CISM
7 27 (7.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 27 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (6.65%) SC Cleared
9 22 (5.85%) Azure Certification
10 21 (5.59%) CEH
11 20 (5.32%) CISA
11 20 (5.32%) DBS Check
12 15 (3.99%) AWS Certification
12 15 (3.99%) DV Cleared
13 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.86%) CCSP
15 4 (1.06%) GIAC
16 3 (0.80%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (15.69%) NIST
2 43 (11.44%) GDPR
3 38 (10.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.85%) PCI DSS
5 21 (5.59%) NCSC
6 15 (3.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (2.39%) GRC
8 4 (1.06%) QA
9 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (12.23%) Docker
2 27 (7.18%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (2.39%) NDS
4 9 (2.39%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 9 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.53%) vSphere
6 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (28.99%) Terraform
2 77 (20.48%) Kubernetes
3 76 (20.21%) Ansible
4 20 (5.32%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (4.26%) CASB
6 12 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.39%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 9 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.13%) Puppet
9 5 (1.33%) Istio
9 5 (1.33%) linkerd
9 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.06%) Grafana
11 3 (0.80%) Argo
11 3 (0.80%) Nessus
12 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.78%) Atlassian
3 21 (5.59%) Oracle
4 18 (4.79%) Google
5 10 (2.66%) ForgeRock
5 10 (2.66%) VMware
6 9 (2.39%) CyberArk
6 9 (2.39%) NetIQ
6 9 (2.39%) Novell
6 9 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco
9 3 (0.80%) Citrix
9 3 (0.80%) New Relic
10 2 (0.53%) ESRI
11 1 (0.27%) Lets Encrypt
11 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Veracode