DevSecOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 298 420
Rank change year-on-year +41 +122 -12
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 135 137 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.60% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.68% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 117 73
10th Percentile £80 £450 £451
25th Percentile £494 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% - +28.40%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £719
90th Percentile £720 £838 £770
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +13.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £45.88 - -
25th Percentile £48.43 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevSecOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevSecOps in the UK excluding London

DevSecOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +4 35 £625 -10.71% 22
North of England +40 31 £622 -2.43% 13
South West +3 30 £550 -8.71% 12
East of England +17 20 £80 -86.09% 5
Yorkshire +23 18 £625 -3.85% 7
North West +19 13 £524 -5.84% 5
Midlands +13 13 £638 +8.51% 9
West Midlands 0 9 £650 +10.64% 8
Scotland +41 6 £600 -4.00% 4
East Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) AWS
1 47 (34.81%) Azure
2 20 (14.81%) GCP
3 12 (8.89%) Entra ID
3 12 (8.89%) PaaS
4 11 (8.15%) GitHub
5 10 (7.41%) SaaS
6 9 (6.67%) Kong
7 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.19%) IaaS
9 6 (4.44%) Apigee
10 5 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.70%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.96%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
13 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.56%) VPN
2 17 (12.59%) DNS
3 13 (9.63%) Firewall
4 12 (8.89%) HTTP
5 10 (7.41%) TCP/IP
6 9 (6.67%) Network Security
7 6 (4.44%) SSL
8 5 (3.70%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.22%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.48%) VLAN
11 1 (0.74%) Internet
11 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.74%) Big Data
3 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.74%) OLAP
3 1 (0.74%) Power BI
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (14.07%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.33%) JIRA
3 11 (8.15%) Git
4 10 (7.41%) GitLab
5 9 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 9 (6.67%) Travis CI
6 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.74%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.67%) Finance
4 5 (3.70%) Retail
5 4 (2.96%) Banking
6 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.48%) Military
6 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.26%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Data Migration Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Migration Engineer
3 20 (14.81%) Architect
4 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 15 (11.11%) Security Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Consultant
9 6 (4.44%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Lead
9 6 (4.44%) Security Consultant
10 5 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Automation Architect
11 4 (2.96%) DevSecOps Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (7.41%) JSON
1 10 (7.41%) YAML
2 9 (6.67%) .NET
2 9 (6.67%) XML
3 6 (4.44%) OAuth
3 6 (4.44%) SAML
4 5 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.70%) Spring
5 4 (2.96%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.96%) ModSecurity
6 3 (2.22%) JDBC
6 3 (2.22%) JPA
6 3 (2.22%) JWT
6 3 (2.22%) REST
6 3 (2.22%) Web Services
6 3 (2.22%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.48%) Kafka
7 2 (1.48%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.41%) PKI
1 10 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.22%) IoT
4 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.48%) IVR
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.41%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) Agile
2 52 (38.52%) DevOps
3 41 (30.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 34 (25.19%) Migration
6 27 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 26 (19.26%) Cloud Security
7 26 (19.26%) Containerisation
8 22 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (15.56%) Application Security
10 20 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
10 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (11.11%) Scrum
12 15 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 14 (10.37%) Project Management
13 14 (10.37%) Security Testing
13 14 (10.37%) Task Automation
13 14 (10.37%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 13 (9.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.52%) Python
2 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
3 11 (8.15%) Bash
4 9 (6.67%) Java
5 7 (5.19%) C#
6 3 (2.22%) ActionScript
6 3 (2.22%) PHP
6 3 (2.22%) Ruby
7 2 (1.48%) Bicep
7 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.48%) SQL
8 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.44%) Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.22%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) CISM
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) QA
2 5 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (3.70%) NIST
3 4 (2.96%) GDPR
4 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.48%) COBIT
5 2 (1.48%) COSO
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (19.26%) Docker
2 10 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.96%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Terraform
2 24 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.04%) Ansible
4 12 (8.89%) Progress Chef
5 11 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.15%) Puppet
6 9 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (6.67%) Grafana
6 9 (6.67%) Kibana
6 9 (6.67%) logstash
7 6 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.96%) OPNET
8 4 (2.96%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.74%) Kiali
9 1 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Micro Focus
2 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.63%) VMware
3 11 (8.15%) Splunk
4 7 (5.19%) Cisco
5 6 (4.44%) Oracle
6 5 (3.70%) Google
7 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.22%) F5
8 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.48%) Juniper
9 2 (1.48%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.74%) Qualys
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.74%) SAP
10 1 (0.74%) Sophos