DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 354 480
Rank change year-on-year -106 +126 -86
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 511 987 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.95% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.00% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 320 468 617
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,313 £63,750 £63,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,214 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +2.77% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,578 £113,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevSecOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -102 454 £77,500 -6.06% 165
UK excluding London -108 263 £70,000 -6.67% 94
Work from Home -73 224 £82,500 +3.13% 95
London -47 209 £90,000 - 76
South East +14 87 £70,000 -17.65% 25
South West -2 59 £75,000 +18.58% 21
Midlands +19 48 £72,500 -3.33% 15
West Midlands +22 37 £72,500 -3.33% 8
North of England -91 36 £65,000 -13.33% 17
Scotland -72 20 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire +23 14 £55,173 -33.12% 10
North West -62 14 £65,000 +1.96% 5
East Midlands -16 11 £72,500 -3.33% 7
Wales +4 8 - - 3
North East +3 8 £70,000 -1.75% 2
East of England +22 7 £55,173 -21.18% 7

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 13 (2.54%) Confluence
2 10 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
5 3 (0.59%) CMS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 225 (44.03%) Azure
2 205 (40.12%) AWS
3 67 (13.11%) Serverless
4 54 (10.57%) GitHub
5 50 (9.78%) SaaS
6 48 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (9.39%) PaaS
7 44 (8.61%) GCP
8 43 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (7.05%) Azure AKS
11 30 (5.87%) IaaS
12 27 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (4.89%) Amazon S3
14 24 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (4.31%) CloudFront
17 21 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (4.11%) Entra ID
18 20 (3.91%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 93 (18.20%) Firewall
2 54 (10.57%) DNS
3 48 (9.39%) VPN
3 48 (9.39%) WAN
4 37 (7.24%) Internet
4 37 (7.24%) LAN
5 32 (6.26%) TCP/IP
6 30 (5.87%) HTTP
7 29 (5.68%) DHCP
8 22 (4.31%) Network Security
9 11 (2.15%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.98%) OSPF
11 4 (0.78%) BGP
11 4 (0.78%) HSRP
11 4 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.20%) AMQP
12 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.07%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.96%) Big Data
4 10 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.57%) CockroachDB
5 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.57%) Redis
6 7 (1.37%) Power BI
7 6 (1.17%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.17%) Metadata
8 5 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.78%) Parquet
9 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.39%) Looker
10 2 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (10.76%) Git
2 37 (7.24%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.46%) GitLab
4 17 (3.33%) JIRA
5 13 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.35%) Burp Suite
7 10 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.57%) Jaeger
9 7 (1.37%) git-flow
9 7 (1.37%) Metasploit
10 6 (1.17%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.98%) Postman
12 4 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.39%) JUnit
14 2 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 178 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 158 (30.92%) Finance
3 61 (11.94%) Retail
4 44 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.09%) Banking
7 23 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.94%) Automotive
8 15 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.15%) Health Technology
10 11 (2.15%) Law
11 10 (1.96%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.17%) Games
15 5 (0.98%) Police
16 2 (0.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 142 (27.79%) Architect
2 108 (21.14%) Senior
3 86 (16.83%) Lead
4 48 (9.39%) Developer
5 47 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (6.85%) Security Engineer
7 32 (6.26%) Cloud Architect
8 28 (5.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 26 (5.09%) Consultant
10 25 (4.89%) Infrastructure Architect
10 25 (4.89%) Lead Developer
10 25 (4.89%) Security Manager
10 25 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (4.50%) Technical Architect
12 21 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (3.91%) Security Architect
13 20 (3.91%) Senior Architect
13 20 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (13.89%) OpenID
2 69 (13.50%) REST
3 53 (10.37%) SAML
4 52 (10.18%) .NET
5 46 (9.00%) OAuth
6 42 (8.22%) HTML
7 29 (5.68%) Middleware
8 25 (4.89%) Node.js
8 25 (4.89%) Web Services
9 23 (4.50%) Kafka
10 17 (3.33%) Spring Boot
11 14 (2.74%) React
12 12 (2.35%) ADO
12 12 (2.35%) YAML
13 11 (2.15%) CSS
13 11 (2.15%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.76%) ARM Templates
14 9 (1.76%) RESTful
15 8 (1.57%) HTML5 Canvas
15 8 (1.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 59 (11.55%) Management Information System
3 30 (5.87%) Cyberattack
4 26 (5.09%) Mobile App
5 25 (4.89%) Onboarding
6 24 (4.70%) Virtual Team
7 20 (3.91%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.74%) PKI
9 12 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.96%) Blockchain
11 10 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
11 10 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.37%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 112 (21.92%) Linux
2 65 (12.72%) Windows
3 49 (9.59%) Ubuntu
4 40 (7.83%) VMS
5 11 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.76%) Unix
7 8 (1.57%) Solaris
8 5 (0.98%) CentOS
9 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.39%) Android
10 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.20%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (54.99%) Agile
2 172 (33.66%) DevOps
3 140 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 112 (21.92%) Cloud Security
5 102 (19.96%) Application Security
5 102 (19.96%) Cybersecurity
6 99 (19.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 91 (17.81%) Software Engineering
8 89 (17.42%) Microservices
9 86 (16.83%) Scrum
10 83 (16.24%) Containerisation
11 78 (15.26%) Identity Access Management
12 71 (13.89%) Roadmaps
13 69 (13.50%) Mentoring
14 67 (13.11%) Information Security
15 61 (11.94%) Kanban
16 60 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
16 60 (11.74%) TDD
17 56 (10.96%) Collaborative Culture
18 52 (10.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.03%) Java
2 79 (15.46%) Python
3 57 (11.15%) SQL
4 45 (8.81%) PowerShell
5 36 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.87%) C#
7 16 (3.13%) Bash
8 15 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.74%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.37%) Go
12 6 (1.17%) Ruby
13 5 (0.98%) Bicep
13 5 (0.98%) VB
14 4 (0.78%) Scala
15 3 (0.59%) PHP
16 1 (0.20%) C++
16 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 152 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.07%) DV Cleared
3 61 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 58 (11.35%) Degree
5 50 (9.78%) SC Cleared
6 42 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (6.46%) Azure Certification
8 31 (6.07%) CISSP
9 23 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (4.31%) CISM
11 18 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (2.54%) CEH
13 12 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.76%) GIAC
16 8 (1.57%) CCSP
16 8 (1.57%) GPEN
17 7 (1.37%) OSCP
18 6 (1.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (6.65%) NIST
3 32 (6.26%) QA
4 19 (3.72%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.74%) NCSC
6 13 (2.54%) GRC
7 12 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (2.35%) GDPR
8 6 (1.17%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.59%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.39%) COBIT
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 88 (17.22%) Docker
2 56 (10.96%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (3.52%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) LXC
Systems Management
1 147 (28.77%) Terraform
2 132 (25.83%) Kubernetes
3 84 (16.44%) Ansible
4 12 (2.35%) Nessus
5 9 (1.76%) Puppet
5 9 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.57%) Kiali
6 8 (1.57%) Nmap
7 7 (1.37%) Grafana
8 6 (1.17%) CASB
8 6 (1.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.98%) Kibana
10 4 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.78%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.39%) Istio
11 2 (0.39%) Podman
11 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.20%) Icinga
Vendors
1 124 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.72%) Splunk
3 15 (2.94%) ForgeRock
3 15 (2.94%) Sitecore
4 12 (2.35%) Google
4 12 (2.35%) Qualys
4 12 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 10 (1.96%) VMware
6 9 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.57%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.57%) Oracle
8 7 (1.37%) Databricks
8 7 (1.37%) McAfee
9 6 (1.17%) Confluent
9 6 (1.17%) Informatica
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.78%) IBM
10 4 (0.78%) Meraki
10 4 (0.78%) SAP