DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > England

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in England is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 572 729
Rank change year-on-year +82 +157 -106
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 53 66 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 59 46
10th Percentile £425 £400 £513
25th Percentile £463 £494 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +17.65%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £775
90th Percentile £700 £798 £838
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevSecOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in England

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +88 31 £475 -33.57% 9
South East +23 14 £675 -3.57%
North of England +28 3 £600 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire +17 2 £613 -12.50%
East of England +8 2 £688 +14.58%
Midlands +17 1 - - 5
West Midlands +11 1 - - 5
North West - 1 £582 - 1
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 30 (56.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (47.17%) Terraform
3 25 (47.17%) DevOps
4 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.74%) Containerisation
6 18 (33.96%) Agile
6 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
7 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
7 17 (32.08%) GCP
8 16 (30.19%) Test Automation
9 13 (24.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 12 (22.64%) AWS
10 12 (22.64%) Cloud Security
11 10 (18.87%) Azure
11 10 (18.87%) Google
11 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
11 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
12 9 (16.98%) Microservices
12 9 (16.98%) Information Security
13 8 (15.09%) Penetration Testing
13 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
14 7 (13.21%) Threat Modelling
14 7 (13.21%) GitLab
14 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
15 6 (11.32%) Linux
15 6 (11.32%) Python
15 6 (11.32%) Degree

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) GCP
2 12 (22.64%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) Azure
4 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.89%) Datadog
7 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.89%) IaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
2 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) Big Data
2 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) GitLab
3 5 (9.43%) Git
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (7.55%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) EDI
2 1 (1.89%) J2EE
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
2 1 (1.89%) SOAP
2 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 30 (56.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (47.17%) DevOps
4 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.74%) Containerisation
6 18 (33.96%) Agile
7 16 (30.19%) Test Automation
8 13 (24.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 12 (22.64%) Cloud Security
10 9 (16.98%) Information Security
10 9 (16.98%) Microservices
11 8 (15.09%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (13.21%) Threat Modelling
13 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
13 6 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (9.43%) Analytics
14 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
15 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) Bash
1 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
1 6 (11.32%) Python
2 3 (5.66%) Bicep
3 2 (3.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.66%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Terraform
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
4 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.66%) Puppet
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Google
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Qualys
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.89%) Imperva
5 1 (1.89%) Rapid7