DevSecOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 395 495
Rank change year-on-year +14 +100 -54
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 20 35 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.15% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.16% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 7
10th Percentile £565 £400 -
25th Percentile £613 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £722
90th Percentile £700 £736 £755
UK median daily rate £554 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -14.85% -7.14% +18.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East +27 14 £675 -3.57%
North of England - 4 £591 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Midlands +13 1 - - 2
East of England +5 1 £750 +50.00%
North West - 1 £582 -
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (65.00%) Containerisation
3 13 (65.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 11 (55.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) AWS
6 3 (15.00%) Terraform
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Git
7 2 (10.00%) Ansible
7 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (10.00%) Information Security
7 2 (10.00%) Linux
8 1 (5.00%) Python
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.00%) Internet
8 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (5.00%) Identity Management
8 1 (5.00%) C#
8 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (5.00%) .NET
8 1 (5.00%) J2EE
8 1 (5.00%) Windows
8 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (5.00%) Qualys

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) J2EE
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (65.00%) Containerisation
3 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (65.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 11 (55.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Information Security
8 1 (5.00%) Application Security
8 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Re-Platforming
8 1 (5.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 1 (5.00%) Security Monitoring
8 1 (5.00%) Security Operations
8 1 (5.00%) SOAR
8 1 (5.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) Groovy
1 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (5.00%) Imperva
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) Qualys
1 1 (5.00%) Rapid7