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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 458 359
Rank change year-on-year +26 -99 +146
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 299 512 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.51% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.60% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 195 350 456
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £81,928
Median % change year-on-year - -8.46% +2.41%
75th Percentile £86,875 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £107,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 51,519 85,552 94,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.79% 84.77% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,295 60,063 55,402
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 24 May 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 24 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
England +10 271 £75,000 -3.23% 1,226
UK excluding London +110 164 £71,500 +2.14% 1,136
London +30 120 £81,250 -13.33% 283
Work from Home -1 86 £75,000 -9.09% 677
Midlands +46 42 £75,000 +3.45% 191
South East +30 39 £62,500 -1.57% 333
North of England +48 36 £75,000 +15.38% 223
West Midlands +38 30 £75,000 +3.45% 102
North West +13 27 £75,000 +15.38% 111
South West +102 25 £70,000 -6.67% 146
Scotland +111 14 £62,500 -5.66% 78
East Midlands +31 12 £58,000 -20.00% 76
Yorkshire +57 7 £61,500 +11.47% 85
East of England +31 7 £71,500 +29.59% 146
North East +43 2 £72,750 +3.93% 27
Wales +36 2 £58,000 - 32

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 33 (11.04%) Confluence
2 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.67%) Appian
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 128 (42.81%) Azure
2 86 (28.76%) AWS
3 52 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (13.71%) GitHub
5 40 (13.38%) PaaS
6 29 (9.70%) GCP
7 27 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.02%) SaaS
9 17 (5.69%) Serverless
10 12 (4.01%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.01%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.01%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.68%) Datadog
12 8 (2.68%) IaaS
12 8 (2.68%) npm
13 6 (2.01%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.01%) Azure App Service
13 6 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.71%) Firewall
2 23 (7.69%) Network Security
3 21 (7.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (3.68%) VPN
5 4 (1.34%) IPv4
6 3 (1.00%) DNS
6 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
7 2 (0.67%) OSPF
7 2 (0.67%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.36%) MySQL
1 28 (9.36%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.67%) Power BI
3 2 (0.67%) Tableau
4 1 (0.33%) Airbyte
4 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (12.71%) Git
2 34 (11.37%) JIRA
3 30 (10.03%) Bitbucket
4 12 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.68%) GitLab
5 11 (3.68%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.01%) Selenium
7 5 (1.67%) Robot Framework
7 5 (1.67%) Snyk
8 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.67%) JUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.33%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.33%) MLflow
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 80 (26.76%) Finance
2 62 (20.74%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.02%) Banking
5 11 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (3.68%) Law
6 10 (3.34%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.68%) Marketing
9 5 (1.67%) Electronics
9 5 (1.67%) Front Office
9 5 (1.67%) Legal
9 5 (1.67%) Military
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (29.43%) Senior
2 74 (24.75%) Software Engineer
3 57 (19.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 51 (17.06%) Security Engineer
5 42 (14.05%) Architect
5 42 (14.05%) Lead
6 31 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (9.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 27 (9.03%) Security Architect
8 21 (7.02%) IT Engineer
9 19 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.35%) Systems Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Senior Manager
13 9 (3.01%) Developer
14 7 (2.34%) Security Manager
15 6 (2.01%) Analyst
15 6 (2.01%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.01%) Senior Security Engineer
15 6 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.38%) .NET
2 27 (9.03%) YAML
3 23 (7.69%) React
4 9 (3.01%) Azure Blueprints
5 7 (2.34%) HTML
6 6 (2.01%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.01%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.01%) CSS
6 6 (2.01%) OAuth
6 6 (2.01%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.01%) SOAP
7 5 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (1.67%) Kafka
7 5 (1.67%) OpenID
7 5 (1.67%) SLSA
8 4 (1.34%) Spring
8 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.00%) JDBC
9 3 (1.00%) Middleware
9 3 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.39%) Security Posture
3 44 (14.72%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (6.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 18 (6.02%) Social Media
6 12 (4.01%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.34%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.01%) PKI
9 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.67%) Blog
10 5 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.00%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.74%) Windows
2 49 (16.39%) Linux
3 18 (6.02%) Windows Vista
4 2 (0.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.67%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (64.21%) CI/CD
2 161 (53.85%) Agile
3 103 (34.45%) DevOps
4 97 (32.44%) Test Automation
5 91 (30.43%) Software Engineering
6 90 (30.10%) Computer Science
7 66 (22.07%) Cybersecurity
8 65 (21.74%) Cloud Security
9 53 (17.73%) Application Security
9 53 (17.73%) Coaching
9 53 (17.73%) Information Security
9 53 (17.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (17.73%) Vulnerability Management
10 51 (17.06%) SDLC
10 51 (17.06%) Software Testing
11 48 (16.05%) Mentoring
12 46 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (15.05%) Mathematics
14 40 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (12.71%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 114 (38.13%) Python
2 86 (28.76%) Java
3 54 (18.06%) PowerShell
4 49 (16.39%) Rust
5 38 (12.71%) C#
6 23 (7.69%) Bash
7 20 (6.69%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.02%) C++
9 14 (4.68%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.68%) Bicep
10 11 (3.68%) SQL
11 9 (3.01%) R
12 8 (2.68%) Go
13 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.33%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (34.78%) Degree
2 40 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (12.71%) Master's Degree
4 36 (12.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (11.04%) Security Cleared
6 31 (10.37%) CISSP
7 29 (9.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 29 (9.70%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (7.69%) CISM
9 22 (7.36%) CEH
10 21 (7.02%) CISA
11 18 (6.02%) DBS Check
12 15 (5.02%) SC Cleared
13 12 (4.01%) Azure Certification
14 11 (3.68%) AWS Certification
14 11 (3.68%) DV Cleared
15 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (2.68%) CCSP
17 6 (2.01%) CCSK
18 3 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.41%) NIST
2 60 (20.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (12.37%) GDPR
4 29 (9.70%) NCSC
5 7 (2.34%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.01%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.67%) COBIT
8 4 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.00%) PMBOK
9 3 (1.00%) PMO
9 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.33%) GRC
11 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.36%) Docker
2 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (20.74%) Ansible
2 54 (18.06%) Terraform
3 48 (16.05%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.01%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.34%) Progress Chef
5 7 (2.34%) Puppet
6 6 (2.01%) CASB
6 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.67%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.34%) Grafana
9 3 (1.00%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) Argo
10 2 (0.67%) linkerd
11 1 (0.33%) Kiali
11 1 (0.33%) Kibana
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
11 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 47 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.03%) Atlassian
3 10 (3.34%) Google
3 10 (3.34%) VMware
4 6 (2.01%) Oracle
4 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (1.67%) Black Duck
5 5 (1.67%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.67%) Tanium
5 5 (1.67%) UiPath
6 4 (1.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.34%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.00%) Splunk
7 3 (1.00%) Symantec
8 2 (0.67%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.67%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.67%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud