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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 320 382
Rank change year-on-year +38 +62 +90
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 337 430 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.77% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.86% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 330 431
10th Percentile £425 £475 £525
25th Percentile £500 £525 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +14.80%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £775
90th Percentile £788 £808 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +30.00%
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England +31 306 £625 -3.85% 148
London +26 167 £625 -6.02% 66
UK excluding London +34 132 £615 -5.38% 79
Work from Home +37 102 £625 +2.54% 78
South East -3 34 £625 -10.71% 22
North of England +37 31 £615 -1.60% 14
South West -6 25 £500 -13.04% 18
East of England +23 23 £80 -86.09% 6
Yorkshire +29 17 £624 -4.08% 8
North West +26 14 £523 -6.07% 5
Midlands +13 13 £638 +9.68% 14
West Midlands 0 9 £650 +11.83% 12
Scotland +38 6 £600 -4.00% 5
East Midlands - 4 £450 - 2

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 18 (5.34%) Confluence
2 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) CMS
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 124 (36.80%) Azure
2 119 (35.31%) AWS
3 64 (18.99%) GCP
4 43 (12.76%) SaaS
5 39 (11.57%) PaaS
6 34 (10.09%) IaaS
7 31 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (9.20%) GitHub
8 26 (7.72%) Serverless
9 22 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (5.64%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.67%) Kong
13 9 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.78%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (1.78%) Apigee
14 6 (1.78%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (1.78%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.28%) Firewall
2 24 (7.12%) VPN
3 18 (5.34%) DNS
4 13 (3.86%) HTTP
4 13 (3.86%) Network Security
5 11 (3.26%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.97%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.78%) BIG-IP
7 6 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.78%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.78%) SSL
7 6 (1.78%) WAN
8 4 (1.19%) LAN
9 3 (0.89%) ADSL
9 3 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.89%) Internet
9 3 (0.89%) PSTN
9 3 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.89%) Wireless
9 3 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.08%) Big Data
4 6 (1.78%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.19%) Power BI
7 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) OLAP
8 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (11.57%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.79%) GitLab
3 22 (6.53%) JIRA
4 20 (5.93%) Git
5 12 (3.56%) CircleCI
6 11 (3.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (2.67%) Travis CI
8 7 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.48%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.59%) RStudio
11 2 (0.59%) Selenium
11 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.30%) Gradle
12 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 52 (15.43%) Finance
2 51 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 29 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.93%) Banking
5 13 (3.86%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.78%) Retail
8 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Billing
11 2 (0.59%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (21.36%) Architect
2 54 (16.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 41 (12.17%) Security Architect
4 34 (10.09%) Consultant
5 32 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (8.90%) Security Engineer
7 29 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.72%) Data Engineer
8 26 (7.72%) Senior
9 25 (7.42%) Data Migration Engineer
9 25 (7.42%) Migration Engineer
10 23 (6.82%) Security Consultant
11 18 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (5.04%) Lead
13 16 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.45%) DevSecOps Architect
15 13 (3.86%) GCP Engineer
16 12 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
17 11 (3.26%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.75%) YAML
2 13 (3.86%) .NET
2 13 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (3.56%) JSON
4 10 (2.97%) ARM Templates
4 10 (2.97%) Azure Blueprints
4 10 (2.97%) XML
5 8 (2.37%) SAML
6 7 (2.08%) Node.js
6 7 (2.08%) OAuth
7 6 (1.78%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.48%) REST
8 5 (1.48%) Spring
9 4 (1.19%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.19%) Kafka
9 4 (1.19%) ModSecurity
9 4 (1.19%) Web Services
9 4 (1.19%) WebSockets
10 3 (0.89%) JWT
10 3 (0.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.64%) Security Posture
2 17 (5.04%) IoT
2 17 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.15%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.15%) PKI
5 13 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.56%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.59%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.59%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.12%) Linux
2 14 (4.15%) Windows
3 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (45.70%) DevOps
2 112 (33.23%) CI/CD
3 96 (28.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (27.89%) Agile
5 75 (22.26%) Cloud Security
6 67 (19.88%) Application Security
7 63 (18.69%) Containerisation
7 63 (18.69%) Cybersecurity
8 48 (14.24%) SDLC
9 42 (12.46%) Information Security
10 40 (11.87%) Security Architecture
10 40 (11.87%) Security Testing
11 39 (11.57%) Migration
12 38 (11.28%) Penetration Testing
12 38 (11.28%) Test Automation
13 37 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (10.68%) Microservices
15 30 (8.90%) Static Application Security Testing
16 29 (8.61%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.24%) Python
2 30 (8.90%) PowerShell
3 23 (6.82%) Bash
4 18 (5.34%) Java
5 12 (3.56%) C#
6 10 (2.97%) SQL
7 8 (2.37%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.08%) C++
8 7 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.19%) Bicep
11 3 (0.89%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.89%) PHP
11 3 (0.89%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 59 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.12%) Degree
4 14 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.56%) CISSP
7 11 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.78%) CISM
10 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.59%) CEH
11 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.59%) GIAC
11 2 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCIP
12 1 (0.30%) CCNA
12 1 (0.30%) CCNP
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.87%) NIST
2 23 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.86%) QA
4 12 (3.56%) NCSC
5 11 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.37%) GDPR
7 5 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.89%) COBIT
9 3 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.89%) SLA
10 2 (0.59%) COSO
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (19.29%) Docker
2 16 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 113 (33.53%) Terraform
2 71 (21.07%) Kubernetes
3 44 (13.06%) Ansible
4 15 (4.45%) Progress Chef
4 15 (4.45%) Puppet
5 12 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (2.97%) Grafana
7 9 (2.67%) Kibana
7 9 (2.67%) logstash
8 8 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.19%) OPNET
9 4 (1.19%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) CASB
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.72%) Google
3 25 (7.42%) Micro Focus
4 23 (6.82%) VMware
5 13 (3.86%) Splunk
6 8 (2.37%) F5
7 7 (2.08%) Cisco
8 6 (1.78%) Oracle
9 4 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.19%) SAP
9 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.89%) Aruba
10 3 (0.89%) Blue Coat
10 3 (0.89%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.89%) Infoblox
10 3 (0.89%) Qualys
10 3 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
173 DevSecOps jobs Nationwide