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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 315 378
Rank change year-on-year +37 +63 +100
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 326 446 600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.87% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 344 434
10th Percentile £425 £481 £525
25th Percentile £508 £538 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £705 £738 £775
90th Percentile £794 £805 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.31% - +28.40%
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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +33 295 £625 -3.85% 149
London +22 158 £644 -4.63% 72
UK excluding London +35 126 £622 -4.31% 85
Work from Home +23 101 £622 +1.97% 78
South East +16 34 £638 -8.93% 25
North of England +44 30 £612 -2.08% 18
East of England +20 23 £80 -87.70% 5
South West -7 22 £500 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire +24 17 £622 -4.31% 12
North West +25 13 £523 -6.07% 3
Midlands +6 13 £638 +6.25% 13
West Midlands +3 9 £650 +8.33% 11
Scotland +39 4 £600 -2.04% 5
East Midlands +15 4 £450 -35.71% 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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 119 (36.50%) AWS
1 119 (36.50%) Azure
2 60 (18.40%) GCP
3 43 (13.19%) SaaS
4 38 (11.66%) PaaS
5 35 (10.74%) IaaS
6 31 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (9.20%) GitHub
8 26 (7.98%) Serverless
9 22 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.91%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.76%) Kong
15 6 (1.84%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.84%) Apigee
15 6 (1.84%) AWS CloudTrail
15 6 (1.84%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.53%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.74%) Firewall
2 20 (6.13%) VPN
3 19 (5.83%) DNS
4 13 (3.99%) HTTP
5 11 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.07%) HTTPS
6 10 (3.07%) Network Security
7 6 (1.84%) BIG-IP
7 6 (1.84%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.84%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.84%) SSL
7 6 (1.84%) WAN
8 4 (1.23%) LAN
9 3 (0.92%) ADSL
9 3 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.92%) Internet
9 3 (0.92%) PSTN
9 3 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.92%) Wireless
9 3 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.15%) Big Data
2 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.84%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.23%) Power BI
5 2 (0.61%) 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 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 32 (9.82%) GitLab
3 23 (7.06%) JIRA
4 21 (6.44%) Git
5 12 (3.68%) CircleCI
5 12 (3.68%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.76%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.53%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.61%) Maven
10 2 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.61%) RStudio
10 2 (0.61%) Selenium
10 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 55 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.95%) Finance
3 28 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.52%) Banking
5 10 (3.07%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.15%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.84%) Retail
8 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Billing
11 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Marketing
11 2 (0.61%) Military
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Aviation
12 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (18.40%) Architect
2 54 (16.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 37 (11.35%) Security Architect
4 34 (10.43%) Consultant
5 31 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.28%) Security Engineer
7 27 (8.28%) Senior
8 26 (7.98%) Data Engineer
9 25 (7.67%) Data Migration Engineer
9 25 (7.67%) Migration Engineer
10 23 (7.06%) Lead
10 23 (7.06%) Security Consultant
11 18 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (3.68%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.37%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 11 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.21%) YAML
2 13 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (3.99%) JSON
3 10 (3.07%) .NET
3 10 (3.07%) ARM Templates
3 10 (3.07%) Azure Blueprints
3 10 (3.07%) XML
4 7 (2.15%) Node.js
4 7 (2.15%) SAML
5 6 (1.84%) OAuth
5 6 (1.84%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.53%) Kafka
6 5 (1.53%) Spring
7 4 (1.23%) REST
7 4 (1.23%) Web Services
7 4 (1.23%) WebSockets
8 3 (0.92%) JDBC
8 3 (0.92%) JPA
8 3 (0.92%) JWT
9 2 (0.61%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.21%) IoT
2 17 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.91%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.29%) PKI
5 13 (3.99%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.61%) IVR
11 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.06%) Linux
2 20 (6.13%) Windows
3 7 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.93%) DevOps
2 108 (33.13%) CI/CD
3 91 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (26.69%) Agile
5 66 (20.25%) Cloud Security
6 62 (19.02%) Containerisation
7 60 (18.40%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (17.18%) Application Security
9 48 (14.72%) SDLC
10 41 (12.58%) Test Automation
11 40 (12.27%) Security Testing
12 38 (11.66%) Information Security
13 37 (11.35%) Migration
13 37 (11.35%) Security Architecture
14 36 (11.04%) Identity Access Management
15 35 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (10.43%) Penetration Testing
17 33 (10.12%) Microservices
18 31 (9.51%) Static Application Security Testing
19 30 (9.20%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.42%) Python
2 30 (9.20%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.06%) Bash
4 17 (5.21%) Java
5 12 (3.68%) SQL
6 11 (3.37%) C#
7 8 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.84%) C++
8 6 (1.84%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.23%) Bicep
10 4 (1.23%) Ruby
11 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.92%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.61%) R
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.06%) Degree
4 13 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.99%) CISSP
4 13 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.53%) CISM
9 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) CEH
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CCIP
11 1 (0.31%) CCNP
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.27%) NIST
2 23 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.99%) QA
4 12 (3.68%) NCSC
5 11 (3.37%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.15%) GDPR
7 4 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.92%) COBIT
8 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.92%) SLA
9 2 (0.61%) COSO
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (20.86%) Docker
2 15 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 107 (32.82%) Terraform
2 71 (21.78%) Kubernetes
3 45 (13.80%) Ansible
4 16 (4.91%) Progress Chef
5 15 (4.60%) Puppet
6 12 (3.68%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.07%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.07%) Grafana
8 9 (2.76%) Kibana
8 9 (2.76%) logstash
9 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.61%) OPNET
10 2 (0.61%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.61%) Rancher
11 1 (0.31%) Argo
11 1 (0.31%) CASB
11 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.31%) Istio
11 1 (0.31%) SCOM
11 1 (0.31%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 43 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.59%) VMware
3 25 (7.67%) Micro Focus
4 21 (6.44%) Google
5 13 (3.99%) Splunk
6 8 (2.45%) F5
6 8 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.84%) Oracle
7 6 (1.84%) SAP
8 5 (1.53%) Cisco
8 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.23%) Teradata
10 3 (0.92%) Aruba
10 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.92%) Blue Coat
10 3 (0.92%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.92%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.92%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.61%) Qualys