DevSecOps Engineer Contracts

DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 596 759
Rank change year-on-year +73 +163 -119
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 53 88 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 77 60
10th Percentile £425 £434 £513
25th Percentile £463 £500 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £766
90th Percentile £700 £750 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +35.00% -4.76% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +102 51 £600 -11.11% 20
London +105 32 £475 -33.57% 13
UK excluding London +40 17 £675 +35.00% 8
South East +25 14 £675 -3.57%
Work from Home +68 8 £550 - 6
East of England +9 2 £688 -1.79%
North of England +25 1 £600 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire +13 1 £600 -14.29%

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 31 (58.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (49.06%) DevOps
4 25 (47.17%) Terraform
5 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
6 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
7 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
7 20 (37.74%) Containerisation
8 19 (35.85%) Agile
9 18 (33.96%) GCP
10 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
11 15 (28.30%) AWS
12 13 (24.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
14 11 (20.75%) Azure
15 10 (18.87%) Cloud Security
16 9 (16.98%) Google
16 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
17 8 (15.09%) Microservices
17 8 (15.09%) Docker
17 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
17 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
18 7 (13.21%) Penetration Testing
18 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
18 7 (13.21%) GitLab
19 6 (11.32%) Threat Modelling
19 6 (11.32%) Ansible
19 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
19 6 (11.32%) Information Security

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (33.96%) GCP
2 15 (28.30%) AWS
3 11 (20.75%) Azure
4 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.89%) Datadog
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.89%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.89%) IaaS
6 1 (1.89%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) Big Data
2 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) GitLab
3 5 (9.43%) Git
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) Kafka
2 4 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) EDI
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 31 (58.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (49.06%) DevOps
4 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.74%) Containerisation
6 19 (35.85%) Agile
7 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
8 13 (24.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 10 (18.87%) Cloud Security
10 8 (15.09%) Microservices
10 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (13.21%) Penetration Testing
12 6 (11.32%) Information Security
12 6 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (11.32%) Threat Modelling
13 5 (9.43%) Analytics
13 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
13 5 (9.43%) Performance Monitoring
13 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.32%) Bash
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bicep
4 2 (3.77%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) CISSP
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.55%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Terraform
2 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.32%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Google
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Qualys
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat