DevSecOps Contracts in the North of England

DevSecOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 194 222
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 -37
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 30 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 17
10th Percentile £506 £485 £431
25th Percentile £513 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.17% +0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £706
90th Percentile £645 £839 £746
England median daily rate £625 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.43 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the North of England

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire +22 17 £622 -4.31% 8
North West +21 13 £523 -6.07% 3
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (46.67%) GCP
4 9 (30.00%) GitHub
4 9 (30.00%) Kong
5 6 (20.00%) Apigee
6 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Datadog
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) HTTP
2 9 (30.00%) DNS
2 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (30.00%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) SSL
4 5 (16.67%) HTTPS
5 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
5 3 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (40.00%) JIRA
2 9 (30.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (30.00%) CircleCI
2 9 (30.00%) Git
2 9 (30.00%) GitLab
2 9 (30.00%) Travis CI
3 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) JSON
1 11 (36.67%) YAML
2 9 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (30.00%) XML
3 5 (16.67%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) JDBC
4 3 (10.00%) JPA
4 3 (10.00%) JWT
4 3 (10.00%) WebSockets
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) Swagger
6 1 (3.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 18 (60.00%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (40.00%) Scrum
5 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 10 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (33.33%) Task Automation
6 9 (30.00%) API Integration
6 9 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (30.00%) Project Management
6 9 (30.00%) Secure Coding
6 9 (30.00%) Use Case
6 9 (30.00%) Workflow
7 8 (26.67%) Application Security
8 7 (23.33%) API Development
8 7 (23.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Bash
2 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) MCSE
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Ansible
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 9 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (30.00%) Grafana
2 9 (30.00%) Kibana
2 9 (30.00%) logstash
2 9 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (30.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) F5
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Sophos