DevSecOps Jobs

DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 460 356 508
Rank change year-on-year -104 +152 -99
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 539 853 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.94% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 372 447 567
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps.

Salary trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -85 482 £77,500 -6.06% 148
UK excluding London -105 265 £70,000 -3.45% 79
London +12 240 £95,000 +5.56% 66
Work from Home -93 228 £82,500 +9.03% 78
South East +16 98 £63,500 -20.63% 22
Midlands +5 60 £72,500 -3.33% 14
West Midlands +9 49 £72,500 -3.33% 12
North of England -91 36 £60,087 -19.88% 14
South West -33 34 £75,000 +20.00% 18
Scotland -67 24 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Yorkshire -4 14 £55,173 -33.12% 8
North West -70 14 £65,000 -3.70% 5
East Midlands -23 11 £72,500 -3.33% 2
Wales -1 8 - - 1
North East -4 8 £70,000 -1.75% 1
East of England +2 6 £55,173 -21.18% 6

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 12 (2.23%) Confluence
2 9 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.11%) Apache
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 247 (45.83%) Azure
2 206 (38.22%) AWS
3 73 (13.54%) Serverless
4 56 (10.39%) SaaS
5 54 (10.02%) GitHub
6 51 (9.46%) PaaS
7 49 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (9.09%) GCP
8 42 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (7.42%) Azure AKS
10 34 (6.31%) Amazon S3
11 33 (6.12%) IaaS
12 29 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (4.27%) CloudFront
16 22 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (3.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 102 (18.92%) Firewall
2 56 (10.39%) WAN
3 53 (9.83%) VPN
4 40 (7.42%) Internet
5 39 (7.24%) LAN
6 29 (5.38%) DNS
7 23 (4.27%) Network Security
8 17 (3.15%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.48%) OSPF
10 7 (1.30%) BGP
10 7 (1.30%) HSRP
10 7 (1.30%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.37%) HTTP
13 1 (0.19%) IPv4
13 1 (0.19%) SMTP
13 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.72%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.78%) Big Data
2 15 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 14 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.86%) Hadoop
6 10 (1.86%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.48%) CockroachDB
9 7 (1.30%) Power BI
9 7 (1.30%) Redis
10 6 (1.11%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.11%) Metadata
11 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.74%) Parquet
11 4 (0.74%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.37%) Bigtable
12 2 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (9.65%) Git
2 34 (6.31%) GitLab
2 34 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.97%) JIRA
4 15 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 12 (2.23%) Burp Suite
5 12 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.48%) Jaeger
6 8 (1.48%) Metasploit
7 7 (1.30%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.30%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (0.93%) Postman
9 4 (0.74%) git-flow
9 4 (0.74%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.37%) JUnit
11 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 156 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 142 (26.35%) Finance
3 63 (11.69%) Retail
4 33 (6.12%) Banking
5 29 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.15%) Automotive
9 16 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.23%) Law
13 10 (1.86%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.67%) Tech for Good
15 8 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.11%) Games
17 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 134 (24.86%) Architect
2 107 (19.85%) Senior
3 85 (15.77%) Lead
4 56 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 48 (8.91%) Security Engineer
6 45 (8.35%) Developer
7 41 (7.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 32 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (4.64%) Consultant
12 24 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
12 24 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.45%) Security Manager
12 24 (4.45%) Technical Architect
13 23 (4.27%) Lead Developer
14 22 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.90%) Infrastructure Architect
15 21 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.71%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.99%) REST
2 50 (9.28%) .NET
3 48 (8.91%) OAuth
4 44 (8.16%) OpenID
5 43 (7.98%) Middleware
6 28 (5.19%) Node.js
7 26 (4.82%) Kafka
7 26 (4.82%) SAML
7 26 (4.82%) Web Services
8 17 (3.15%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.41%) React
9 13 (2.41%) YAML
10 11 (2.04%) ADO
10 11 (2.04%) ARM Templates
10 11 (2.04%) GraphQL
10 11 (2.04%) HTML
11 10 (1.86%) Azure Blueprints
11 10 (1.86%) Spring
12 9 (1.67%) CSS
12 9 (1.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.76%) Management Information System
2 49 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.82%) Mobile App
4 24 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.90%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.60%) PKI
8 13 (2.41%) PropTech
9 11 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.86%) Blockchain
10 10 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.86%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.30%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.74%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (23.19%) Linux
2 72 (13.36%) Windows
3 53 (9.83%) Ubuntu
4 41 (7.61%) VMS
5 14 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.04%) Unix
7 10 (1.86%) Solaris
8 5 (0.93%) CentOS
9 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.19%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (49.35%) Agile
2 194 (35.99%) DevOps
3 159 (29.50%) CI/CD
4 109 (20.22%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (19.29%) Application Security
6 102 (18.92%) Scrum
7 97 (18.00%) Cloud Security
7 97 (18.00%) Software Engineering
8 94 (17.44%) Containerisation
9 93 (17.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 92 (17.07%) Microservices
11 83 (15.40%) Identity Access Management
12 74 (13.73%) Kanban
13 68 (12.62%) Information Security
14 67 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (12.24%) Mentoring
16 57 (10.58%) TDD
16 57 (10.58%) Test Automation
17 55 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
18 51 (9.46%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.04%) Python
2 104 (19.29%) Java
3 74 (13.73%) SQL
4 49 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.82%) C#
6 26 (4.82%) Kotlin
7 17 (3.15%) Bash
8 15 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.11%) Go
11 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.93%) VB
12 4 (0.74%) Bicep
12 4 (0.74%) Ruby
12 4 (0.74%) Scala
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 133 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.13%) Degree
3 59 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 48 (8.91%) DV Cleared
5 45 (8.35%) AWS Certification
6 36 (6.68%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.94%) CISSP
8 23 (4.27%) CISM
9 20 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.60%) CEH
13 12 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.86%) GIAC
15 8 (1.48%) CCSP
15 8 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.48%) GPEN
16 7 (1.30%) OSCP
17 6 (1.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (8.53%) NIST
3 32 (5.94%) QA
4 18 (3.34%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.97%) NCSC
6 13 (2.41%) GDPR
6 13 (2.41%) GRC
7 12 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.30%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.11%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.37%) COBIT
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 91 (16.88%) Docker
2 55 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (3.71%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.74%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) LXC
Systems Management
1 142 (26.35%) Kubernetes
2 139 (25.79%) Terraform
3 95 (17.63%) Ansible
4 12 (2.23%) Nessus
5 9 (1.67%) Nmap
5 9 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.48%) CASB
6 8 (1.48%) Kiali
6 8 (1.48%) Puppet
7 7 (1.30%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.30%) Grafana
8 6 (1.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.93%) Kibana
10 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.56%) Argo
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Istio
12 2 (0.37%) Podman
12 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 119 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.53%) Splunk
3 16 (2.97%) ForgeRock
3 16 (2.97%) Sitecore
4 12 (2.23%) Qualys
4 12 (2.23%) Red Hat
5 10 (1.86%) VMware
6 9 (1.67%) Google
6 9 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.48%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.48%) Oracle
8 7 (1.30%) Cisco
8 7 (1.30%) Databricks
8 7 (1.30%) Meraki
9 6 (1.11%) Confluent
9 6 (1.11%) Informatica
10 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
11 4 (0.74%) McAfee
11 4 (0.74%) SAP