DevSecOps Contracts in England

DevSecOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 310 375
Rank change year-on-year +44 +65 +81
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 295 389 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.80% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.89% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 300 370
10th Percentile £416 £481 £525
25th Percentile £498 £538 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +19.57%
75th Percentile £719 £743 £775
90th Percentile £800 £826 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in England

DevSecOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +23 158 £644 -4.63% 72
South East +4 34 £638 -8.93% 24
North of England +41 30 £612 -2.08% 17
East of England +27 23 £80 -87.70% 6
South West -5 22 £500 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire +28 17 £622 -4.31% 11
North West +20 13 £523 -6.07% 3
Midlands +1 13 £638 +6.25% 11
West Midlands +1 9 £650 +8.33% 9
East Midlands +18 4 £450 -35.71% 2
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (5.76%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 104 (35.25%) Azure
2 99 (33.56%) AWS
3 59 (20.00%) GCP
4 32 (10.85%) SaaS
5 27 (9.15%) PaaS
6 24 (8.14%) IaaS
7 23 (7.80%) Serverless
8 20 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (6.44%) GitHub
10 17 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.42%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.05%) Kong
15 6 (2.03%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (2.03%) Apigee
15 6 (2.03%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
16 5 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (1.69%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.53%) Firewall
2 20 (6.78%) VPN
3 19 (6.44%) DNS
4 13 (4.41%) HTTP
5 11 (3.73%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.39%) HTTPS
6 10 (3.39%) Network Security
7 6 (2.03%) BIG-IP
7 6 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.03%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.03%) SSL
7 6 (2.03%) WAN
8 4 (1.36%) LAN
9 3 (1.02%) ADSL
9 3 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (1.02%) Internet
9 3 (1.02%) PSTN
9 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.02%) Wireless
9 3 (1.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.37%) Big Data
3 6 (2.03%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) OLAP
5 1 (0.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (11.53%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.17%) GitLab
3 23 (7.80%) JIRA
4 20 (6.78%) Git
5 11 (3.73%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (3.05%) Travis CI
7 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.68%) Maven
10 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.68%) RStudio
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.34%) Gatling
11 1 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 54 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.29%) Finance
3 28 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.08%) Banking
5 10 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.37%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.03%) Retail
8 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 57 (19.32%) Architect
2 51 (17.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 35 (11.86%) Security Architect
4 29 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (9.83%) Consultant
5 28 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (8.81%) Data Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) Data Migration Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) Migration Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) Security Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) Senior
8 23 (7.80%) Lead
9 21 (7.12%) Security Consultant
10 17 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.07%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (4.07%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.76%) YAML
2 13 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.41%) JSON
3 10 (3.39%) XML
4 8 (2.71%) .NET
5 7 (2.37%) Node.js
5 7 (2.37%) SAML
6 6 (2.03%) OAuth
6 6 (2.03%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.69%) Spring
8 4 (1.36%) Kafka
8 4 (1.36%) REST
8 4 (1.36%) Web Services
8 4 (1.36%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.02%) JDBC
9 3 (1.02%) JPA
9 3 (1.02%) JWT
10 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.68%) EDI
10 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.42%) IoT
2 15 (5.08%) Security Posture
3 13 (4.41%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.39%) PKI
5 10 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.05%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.68%) IVR
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.80%) Linux
2 19 (6.44%) Windows
3 7 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (43.73%) DevOps
2 100 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 84 (28.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (28.14%) Agile
5 60 (20.34%) Cloud Security
6 53 (17.97%) Containerisation
7 51 (17.29%) Application Security
8 50 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (14.58%) SDLC
10 37 (12.54%) Information Security
10 37 (12.54%) Migration
11 35 (11.86%) Security Architecture
12 34 (11.53%) Microservices
13 33 (11.19%) Penetration Testing
13 33 (11.19%) Security Testing
14 32 (10.85%) Identity Access Management
15 31 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (9.49%) Test Automation
17 27 (9.15%) Data Migration
18 26 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.58%) Python
2 29 (9.83%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.80%) Bash
4 17 (5.76%) Java
5 11 (3.73%) SQL
6 10 (3.39%) C#
7 7 (2.37%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.03%) C++
8 6 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.36%) Bicep
10 4 (1.36%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.02%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.14%) Degree
4 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.07%) CISSP
6 11 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.69%) CISM
9 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) CEH
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CCIP
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) CCNP
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.88%) NIST
2 22 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.41%) QA
4 11 (3.73%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.37%) GDPR
6 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.02%) COBIT
7 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.02%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) COSO
8 2 (0.68%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (18.64%) Docker
2 15 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 90 (30.51%) Terraform
2 58 (19.66%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.17%) Ansible
4 16 (5.42%) Progress Chef
5 15 (5.08%) Puppet
6 12 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.39%) Grafana
8 9 (3.05%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.05%) Kibana
8 9 (3.05%) logstash
9 8 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) OPNET
10 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.68%) Rancher
11 1 (0.34%) Istio
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.34%) SCOM
11 1 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 43 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.49%) VMware
3 25 (8.47%) Micro Focus
4 21 (7.12%) Google
5 13 (4.41%) Splunk
6 8 (2.71%) F5
7 6 (2.03%) Oracle
7 6 (2.03%) SAP
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.36%) Teradata
10 3 (1.02%) Aruba
10 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.02%) Blue Coat
10 3 (1.02%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.02%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.68%) Guidewire