DevSecOps Contracts

DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 328 378
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 +78
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 299 453 618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.76% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 346 444
10th Percentile £419 £483 £513
25th Percentile £511 £538 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +11.02%
75th Percentile £722 £738 £775
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £619 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.85% +28.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +18 267 £625 -3.85% 145
London +16 144 £655 -2.96% 71
UK excluding London +40 111 £619 -1.04% 79
Work from Home +20 97 £625 +2.54% 86
South East +5 30 £663 -5.36% 22
North of England +38 28 £588 -6.00% 18
East of England +28 22 £80 -87.70% 7
South West -4 18 £303 -45.00% 14
Yorkshire +29 15 £615 -5.38% 8
North West +29 13 £523 -11.06% 6
Midlands +9 10 £650 +8.33% 11
West Midlands +6 6 £650 +8.33% 5
East Midlands +23 4 £450 -35.71% 6
Scotland +31 3 £600 -4.00% 7

DevSecOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.12%) AWS
2 106 (35.45%) Azure
3 53 (17.73%) GCP
4 38 (12.71%) SaaS
5 35 (11.71%) PaaS
6 33 (11.04%) IaaS
7 28 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.03%) Serverless
9 25 (8.36%) GitHub
10 20 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.01%) Entra ID
12 12 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.01%) Apigee
14 6 (2.01%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (2.01%) Kong
15 5 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.37%) Firewall
2 16 (5.35%) DNS
3 15 (5.02%) VPN
4 11 (3.68%) Network Security
5 10 (3.34%) HTTP
6 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.34%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (2.01%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.01%) WAN
9 5 (1.67%) LAN
10 4 (1.34%) ADSL
10 4 (1.34%) Internet
10 4 (1.34%) PSTN
10 4 (1.34%) SSL
10 4 (1.34%) Wireless
10 4 (1.34%) WLAN
11 2 (0.67%) VLAN
11 2 (0.67%) VSAN
12 1 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.34%) Big Data
2 7 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.01%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.34%) Power BI
5 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.33%) OLAP
6 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.33%) Redis
6 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.03%) GitLab
3 18 (6.02%) Git
4 17 (5.69%) JIRA
5 12 (4.01%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.01%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.01%) Travis CI
8 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.67%) Gatling
10 2 (0.67%) Maven
10 2 (0.67%) RStudio
10 2 (0.67%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.33%) GoCD
11 1 (0.33%) Gradle
11 1 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 51 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.05%) Finance
3 21 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.35%) Banking
5 8 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.01%) Retail
7 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.00%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Billing
10 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Military
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Aviation
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (16.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 47 (15.72%) Architect
3 37 (12.37%) Consultant
4 33 (11.04%) Security Architect
5 30 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (9.36%) Security Engineer
7 26 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 26 (8.70%) Security Consultant
8 25 (8.36%) Data Migration Engineer
8 25 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.36%) Migration Engineer
9 24 (8.03%) Senior
10 22 (7.36%) Lead
11 17 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (4.01%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (4.01%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 11 (3.68%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 11 (3.68%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.35%) YAML
2 10 (3.34%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.34%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.34%) JSON
3 9 (3.01%) .NET
4 7 (2.34%) Node.js
4 7 (2.34%) XML
5 6 (2.01%) OAuth
5 6 (2.01%) OAuth2
5 6 (2.01%) REST
5 6 (2.01%) SAML
6 5 (1.67%) Kafka
6 5 (1.67%) Spring
7 4 (1.34%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.00%) JDBC
8 3 (1.00%) JPA
8 3 (1.00%) JWT
8 3 (1.00%) Web Services
9 2 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.69%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.69%) IoT
2 17 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.02%) Mobile App
5 13 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.01%) PKI
7 8 (2.68%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.02%) Linux
2 19 (6.35%) Windows
3 6 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (45.48%) DevOps
2 94 (31.44%) CI/CD
3 84 (28.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (24.08%) Agile
5 62 (20.74%) Cloud Security
6 60 (20.07%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (19.06%) Containerisation
8 41 (13.71%) Application Security
8 41 (13.71%) SDLC
9 40 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 39 (13.04%) Security Testing
11 36 (12.04%) Information Security
12 34 (11.37%) Penetration Testing
13 33 (11.04%) Security Architecture
14 32 (10.70%) Microservices
14 32 (10.70%) Migration
15 31 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (10.03%) Identity Access Management
17 28 (9.36%) Static Application Security Testing
18 27 (9.03%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.05%) Python
2 23 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.02%) Bash
4 15 (5.02%) SQL
5 14 (4.68%) Java
6 10 (3.34%) C#
7 8 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.01%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.67%) Bicep
9 5 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.00%) Ruby
11 2 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.67%) PHP
11 2 (0.67%) R
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.69%) Degree
4 15 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.35%) CISSP
6 11 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.34%) CISM
9 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.67%) CEH
10 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) CRISC
11 1 (0.33%) GIAC
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.38%) NIST
2 22 (7.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.01%) NCSC
3 12 (4.01%) QA
4 10 (3.34%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.34%) SLA
7 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) COBIT
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 63 (21.07%) Docker
2 13 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.34%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (33.11%) Terraform
2 63 (21.07%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.71%) Ansible
4 12 (4.01%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.68%) Puppet
6 9 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.34%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (2.34%) Grafana
8 6 (2.01%) Kibana
8 6 (2.01%) logstash
8 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) Argo
9 1 (0.33%) CASB
9 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.33%) Istio
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.33%) OPNET
9 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.33%) SCOM
9 1 (0.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 42 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.36%) Micro Focus
3 24 (8.03%) VMware
4 20 (6.69%) Google
5 10 (3.34%) Splunk
6 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.34%) Oracle
7 7 (2.34%) SAP
8 5 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.34%) Aruba
9 4 (1.34%) Blue Coat
9 4 (1.34%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco
9 4 (1.34%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.34%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.34%) Teradata
10 3 (1.00%) F5
11 2 (0.67%) Juniper
11 2 (0.67%) Veracode