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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 317 385
Rank change year-on-year +34 +68 +89
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 322 437 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.77% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.86% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 337 425
10th Percentile £425 £481 £525
25th Percentile £500 £533 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +17.14%
75th Percentile £705 £738 £775
90th Percentile £794 £803 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.31% - +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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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 +22 291 £625 -3.85% 124
London +15 158 £644 -4.63% 59
UK excluding London +38 126 £622 -4.31% 64
Work from Home +44 99 £624 +2.21% 68
South East 0 34 £638 -8.93% 16
North of England +40 30 £612 -2.08% 15
East of England +29 23 £80 -87.69% 5
South West -1 22 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire +28 17 £622 -4.31% 9
North West +27 13 £523 -6.07% 3
Midlands +22 13 £638 +7.37% 13
West Midlands +2 9 £650 +10.64% 11
Scotland +41 4 £600 -2.04% 5
East Midlands +18 4 £450 -30.77% 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 17 (5.28%) Confluence
2 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 117 (36.34%) Azure
2 113 (35.09%) AWS
3 60 (18.63%) GCP
4 43 (13.35%) SaaS
5 38 (11.80%) PaaS
6 35 (10.87%) IaaS
7 30 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (9.32%) GitHub
8 26 (8.07%) Serverless
9 22 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.97%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.80%) Kong
15 6 (1.86%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.86%) Apigee
15 6 (1.86%) AWS CloudTrail
15 6 (1.86%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.55%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.87%) Firewall
2 20 (6.21%) VPN
3 19 (5.90%) DNS
4 13 (4.04%) HTTP
5 11 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.11%) HTTPS
6 10 (3.11%) Network Security
7 6 (1.86%) BIG-IP
7 6 (1.86%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.86%) SSL
7 6 (1.86%) WAN
8 5 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.24%) LAN
10 3 (0.93%) ADSL
10 3 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.93%) Internet
10 3 (0.93%) PSTN
10 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.93%) Wireless
10 3 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.17%) Big Data
2 7 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.86%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.24%) Power BI
5 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.31%) OLAP
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.25%) GitLab
3 23 (7.14%) JIRA
4 20 (6.21%) Git
5 12 (3.73%) CircleCI
5 12 (3.73%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.80%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.55%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.62%) Maven
10 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.62%) RStudio
10 2 (0.62%) Selenium
10 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.31%) GoCD
11 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 51 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.53%) Finance
3 28 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.90%) Banking
5 11 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.86%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.86%) Retail
7 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Billing
10 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.62%) Marketing
10 2 (0.62%) Military
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Electronics
11 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (18.94%) Architect
2 53 (16.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 37 (11.49%) Security Architect
4 34 (10.56%) Consultant
5 30 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (8.39%) Security Engineer
7 26 (8.07%) Data Engineer
7 26 (8.07%) Senior
8 25 (7.76%) Data Migration Engineer
8 25 (7.76%) Migration Engineer
9 23 (7.14%) Security Consultant
10 19 (5.90%) Lead
11 17 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (3.42%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.28%) YAML
2 13 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (4.04%) JSON
3 10 (3.11%) .NET
3 10 (3.11%) ARM Templates
3 10 (3.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 10 (3.11%) XML
4 7 (2.17%) Node.js
4 7 (2.17%) SAML
5 6 (1.86%) OAuth
5 6 (1.86%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.55%) Spring
7 4 (1.24%) Kafka
7 4 (1.24%) REST
7 4 (1.24%) Web Services
7 4 (1.24%) WebSockets
8 3 (0.93%) JDBC
8 3 (0.93%) JPA
8 3 (0.93%) JWT
9 2 (0.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.28%) IoT
2 17 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.97%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.35%) PKI
5 13 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.14%) Linux
2 20 (6.21%) Windows
3 7 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (45.65%) DevOps
2 102 (31.68%) CI/CD
3 90 (27.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (27.33%) Agile
5 67 (20.81%) Cloud Security
6 62 (19.25%) Containerisation
7 60 (18.63%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (17.70%) Application Security
9 46 (14.29%) SDLC
10 40 (12.42%) Test Automation
11 39 (12.11%) Information Security
11 39 (12.11%) Security Testing
12 37 (11.49%) Migration
12 37 (11.49%) Security Architecture
13 36 (11.18%) Identity Access Management
14 35 (10.87%) Penetration Testing
15 34 (10.56%) Microservices
16 33 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (9.63%) Static Application Security Testing
18 30 (9.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.29%) Python
2 27 (8.39%) PowerShell
3 22 (6.83%) Bash
4 17 (5.28%) Java
5 12 (3.73%) SQL
6 11 (3.42%) C#
7 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.86%) C++
8 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.93%) ActionScript
10 3 (0.93%) Bicep
10 3 (0.93%) PHP
10 3 (0.93%) Ruby
11 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.62%) R
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.45%) Degree
4 14 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.73%) CISSP
7 11 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.86%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.55%) CISM
11 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.31%) CCIP
13 1 (0.31%) CCNA
13 1 (0.31%) CCNP
13 1 (0.31%) CEH
13 1 (0.31%) GIAC
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.11%) NIST
2 22 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.04%) QA
4 12 (3.73%) NCSC
5 11 (3.42%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.17%) GDPR
7 4 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.93%) COBIT
8 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.93%) SLA
9 2 (0.62%) COSO
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (20.19%) Docker
2 15 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.42%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 106 (32.92%) Terraform
2 68 (21.12%) Kubernetes
3 44 (13.66%) Ansible
4 15 (4.66%) Progress Chef
4 15 (4.66%) Puppet
5 12 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (3.11%) Grafana
7 9 (2.80%) Kibana
7 9 (2.80%) logstash
8 8 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.62%) OPNET
9 2 (0.62%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.62%) Rancher
10 1 (0.31%) CASB
10 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.31%) Istio
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.31%) SCOM
10 1 (0.31%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 43 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.76%) Micro Focus
3 24 (7.45%) VMware
4 22 (6.83%) Google
5 13 (4.04%) Splunk
6 8 (2.48%) F5
7 6 (1.86%) Oracle
8 5 (1.55%) Cisco
8 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.55%) SAP
9 4 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.93%) Aruba
10 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.93%) Blue Coat
10 3 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.93%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.62%) Juniper
11 2 (0.62%) Qualys