DevSecOps Engineer
UK

The median DevSecOps Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 874 905 1180
Rank change year-on-year +31 +275 -333
Permanent jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 35 58 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.059% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.065% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 32 47 44
10th Percentile £62,875 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% -16.42%
75th Percentile £90,625 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £111,500 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.68% +35.71% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 96,812 89,556 159,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.45% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,148 56,816 85,173
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps Engineer in the UK

DevSecOps Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 32 £72,500 -14.71% 29
UK excluding London +6 21 £72,500 -23.68% 12
London +66 11 £85,000 - 22
Midlands - 9 £72,500 - 3
West Midlands - 9 £72,500 - 3
Work from Home +26 6 £70,000 - 5
South West -20 5 £75,000 -
South East - 3 £70,000 - 7
Scotland - 3 £90,000 -
North of England +43 1 £70,000 -26.32% 2
North East - 1 £70,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, DevSecOps Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 31 (88.57%) AWS
3 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (51.43%) Kubernetes
6 16 (45.71%) Cloud Security
7 14 (40.00%) Serverless
8 13 (37.14%) Docker
8 13 (37.14%) DevOps
9 12 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (34.29%) Security Operations
9 12 (34.29%) Python
9 12 (34.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
10 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
11 10 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 10 (28.57%) Incident Response
11 10 (28.57%) Agile
11 10 (28.57%) Amazon S3
11 10 (28.57%) Azure
11 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
11 10 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
11 10 (28.57%) AWS Certification
12 9 (25.71%) Ansible
12 9 (25.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (25.71%) PropTech
13 8 (22.86%) NIST
13 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (22.86%) Vulnerability Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 31 (88.57%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Serverless
3 12 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 10 (28.57%) Azure
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (22.86%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (22.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (17.14%) GitHub
8 5 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
9 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.71%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (5.71%) CloudFront
10 2 (5.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Snyk
3 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Games
3 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) OAuth
1 2 (5.71%) OpenID
1 2 (5.71%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) boto
2 1 (2.86%) Loki
2 1 (2.86%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) PropTech
2 7 (20.00%) PKI
3 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (45.71%) Cloud Security
5 13 (37.14%) DevOps
6 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
6 12 (34.29%) Security Operations
7 10 (28.57%) Agile
7 10 (28.57%) Incident Response
7 10 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
8 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (22.86%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (20.00%) Data Security
10 7 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (17.14%) SIEM
12 5 (14.29%) Fintech
12 5 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
12 5 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
13 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
3 1 (2.86%) Go
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (22.86%) NIST
3 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (51.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (25.71%) Ansible
3 7 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) CASB
5 1 (2.86%) Anchore
5 1 (2.86%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Splunk
2 2 (5.71%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Okta