DevSecOps Contracts in the South West

DevSecOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 128 123 159
Rank change year-on-year -5 +36 -23
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 22 36 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.70% 1.04% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.16% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 12
10th Percentile - £400 £451
25th Percentile £80 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £734 £694 £695
90th Percentile £802 £725 £719
England median daily rate £625 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +19.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,113 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.71% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,274 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 317 207
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.76% +10.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.29
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the South West

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the South West 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
Bristol +19 11 £80 -85.45% 7
Wiltshire -10 11 £625 +25.00% 4
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (22.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) PaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) OCI
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) VSAN
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) GoCD
3 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Electronics
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Data Migration Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Migration Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Office Automation Architect
6 1 (4.55%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.09%) ModSecurity
3 1 (4.55%) Blazor
3 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
1 9 (40.91%) Migration
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
4 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (9.09%) ArchiMate
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.09%) Office Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (9.09%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Security Hardening
5 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) C#
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.09%) CISM
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
4 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) COBIT
2 2 (9.09%) COSO
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (18.18%) VMware NSX
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) OPNET
2 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.55%) SCOM
3 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Micro Focus
2 7 (31.82%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 3 (13.64%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix
5 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk