DevSecOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 261 300 410
Rank change year-on-year +39 +110 -13
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 126 147 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.64% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.72% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 126 70
10th Percentile £80 £450 £467
25th Percentile £494 £528 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -0.96% +26.83%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £734
90th Percentile £725 £838 £781
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East 0 34 £638 -8.93% 16
North of England +38 30 £612 -2.08% 14
East of England +26 23 £80 -87.70% 4
South West -11 22 £500 -4.76% 18
Yorkshire +22 17 £622 -4.31% 8
North West +21 13 £523 -6.07% 3
Midlands +13 13 £638 +6.25% 11
West Midlands +5 9 £650 +8.33% 9
Scotland +43 4 £600 -2.04% 4
East Midlands +14 4 £450 -35.71% 2
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.33%) AWS
1 42 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (14.29%) GCP
3 12 (9.52%) GitHub
4 11 (8.73%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.73%) PaaS
5 10 (7.94%) SaaS
6 9 (7.14%) Kong
7 8 (6.35%) IaaS
8 6 (4.76%) Apigee
8 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.97%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.17%) Azure API Management
10 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.08%) VPN
2 18 (14.29%) DNS
3 12 (9.52%) HTTP
4 11 (8.73%) Firewall
4 11 (8.73%) TCP/IP
5 8 (6.35%) Network Security
6 6 (4.76%) SSL
7 5 (3.97%) HTTPS
8 3 (2.38%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.59%) VLAN
9 2 (1.59%) VSAN
10 1 (0.79%) Internet
10 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) Big Data
3 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.79%) OLAP
3 1 (0.79%) Power BI
3 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) JIRA
2 18 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.73%) GitLab
4 10 (7.94%) Git
5 9 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 9 (7.14%) Travis CI
6 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.97%) Visual Studio
8 4 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.79%) GoCD
10 1 (0.79%) Maven
10 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.35%) Finance
4 5 (3.97%) Retail
5 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Banking
6 2 (1.59%) Military
6 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (20.63%) Data Engineer
2 25 (19.84%) Data Migration Engineer
2 25 (19.84%) Migration Engineer
3 18 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Architect
4 13 (10.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Lead
7 9 (7.14%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Consultant
8 6 (4.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Security Consultant
9 5 (3.97%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior
10 4 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.38%) Developer
11 3 (2.38%) Network Engineer
11 3 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.73%) JSON
1 11 (8.73%) YAML
2 10 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.14%) XML
4 6 (4.76%) .NET
5 5 (3.97%) OAuth
5 5 (3.97%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.97%) SAML
5 5 (3.97%) Spring
6 4 (3.17%) REST
6 4 (3.17%) Web Services
7 3 (2.38%) JDBC
7 3 (2.38%) JPA
7 3 (2.38%) JWT
7 3 (2.38%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.59%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.59%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.59%) ModSecurity
8 2 (1.59%) Swagger
9 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 9 (7.14%) PKI
2 8 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.35%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.38%) IoT
4 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.59%) IVR
5 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Windows
2 9 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.68%) Agile
2 44 (34.92%) DevOps
3 35 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (26.98%) Migration
5 28 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 27 (21.43%) Data Migration
7 26 (20.63%) Containerisation
8 20 (15.87%) Identity Access Management
9 19 (15.08%) Cloud Security
10 18 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (13.49%) Scrum
12 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.90%) Application Security
13 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (11.90%) Task Automation
14 14 (11.11%) Security Testing
14 14 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 13 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.84%) Python
2 13 (10.32%) PowerShell
3 11 (8.73%) Bash
4 9 (7.14%) Java
5 7 (5.56%) C#
6 3 (2.38%) ActionScript
6 3 (2.38%) PHP
6 3 (2.38%) Ruby
7 2 (1.59%) SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) Degree
4 6 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.38%) CISSP
5 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.59%) CISM
6 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MCSE
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) NIST
3 4 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (3.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.59%) COBIT
5 2 (1.59%) COSO
System Software
1 24 (19.05%) Docker
2 10 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (19.05%) Terraform
2 23 (18.25%) Ansible
3 22 (17.46%) Kubernetes
4 11 (8.73%) Progress Chef
5 10 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.94%) Puppet
6 9 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (7.14%) Grafana
6 9 (7.14%) Kibana
6 9 (7.14%) logstash
7 6 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.59%) OPNET
8 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.79%) Rancher
9 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Micro Focus
2 14 (11.11%) VMware
3 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.94%) Splunk
5 6 (4.76%) Oracle
6 5 (3.97%) Cisco
7 3 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.38%) F5
7 3 (2.38%) Google
8 2 (1.59%) Juniper
8 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.59%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.79%) Citrix
9 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.79%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.79%) Sophos