DevSecOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevSecOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 237 278 366
Rank change year-on-year +41 +88 +27
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 103 180 272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.84% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 148 184
10th Percentile £434 £450 £500
25th Percentile £531 £514 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £610 £630
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.17% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £716 £738
90th Percentile £750 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +13.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

DevSecOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevSecOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevSecOps.

DevSecOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

DevSecOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.31%) Azure
2 52 (50.49%) AWS
3 20 (19.42%) GCP
4 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (17.48%) GitHub
5 15 (14.56%) IaaS
5 15 (14.56%) PaaS
5 15 (14.56%) SaaS
6 11 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.71%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.80%) Serverless
9 7 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.85%) CloudFront
11 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.91%) Kong
13 2 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) VPN
2 9 (8.74%) Firewall
3 8 (7.77%) DNS
4 7 (6.80%) Network Security
5 5 (4.85%) HTTPS
6 3 (2.91%) HTTP
6 3 (2.91%) LAN
6 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.94%) ADSL
7 2 (1.94%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.94%) Internet
7 2 (1.94%) PSTN
7 2 (1.94%) Wireless
7 2 (1.94%) WLAN
8 1 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.97%) SSH
8 1 (0.97%) SSL
8 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Power BI
2 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.97%) Big Data
4 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) OLAP
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) GitLab
2 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.71%) SonarQube
3 8 (7.77%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.88%) JIRA
6 3 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.91%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.97%) Gradle
7 1 (0.97%) Maven
7 1 (0.97%) RStudio
7 1 (0.97%) Snyk
7 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (19.42%) Finance
2 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.80%) Banking
5 6 (5.83%) Retail
6 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (21.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (16.50%) Security Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) Consultant
4 13 (12.62%) Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Security Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Security Consultant
6 8 (7.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Security Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.83%) Senior
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Security Consultant
9 5 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 5 (4.85%) Lead
10 4 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 4 (3.88%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) ARM Templates
1 10 (9.71%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (6.80%) SAML
3 6 (5.83%) OAuth
3 6 (5.83%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.88%) .NET
4 4 (3.88%) JSON
4 4 (3.88%) XML
4 4 (3.88%) YAML
5 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.97%) Blazor
6 1 (0.97%) EDI
6 1 (0.97%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.97%) Jest
6 1 (0.97%) Node.js
6 1 (0.97%) OpenID
6 1 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.97%) React
6 1 (0.97%) Redux
6 1 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Management Information System
1 13 (12.62%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.85%) IoT
4 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Windows
2 6 (5.83%) Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.97%) VMS
4 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.40%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 23 (22.33%) Agile
4 23 (22.33%) Cloud Security
5 22 (21.36%) Application Security
6 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
7 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (16.50%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 16 (15.53%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (15.53%) Static Application Security Testing
10 15 (14.56%) Information Security
10 15 (14.56%) Security Testing
10 15 (14.56%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.62%) Project Management
12 12 (11.65%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.68%) SDLC
13 11 (10.68%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.74%) Python
2 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.88%) Bash
4 3 (2.91%) C#
4 3 (2.91%) SQL
5 2 (1.94%) Bicep
5 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.97%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.97%) Go
6 1 (0.97%) Java
6 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.97%) PHP
6 1 (0.97%) R
6 1 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.80%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.85%) CISSP
7 4 (3.88%) CISM
8 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.97%) CCIP
9 1 (0.97%) CEH
9 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.97%) Degree
9 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) NIST
2 11 (10.68%) NCSC
3 10 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (6.80%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.88%) GDPR
5 4 (3.88%) QA
6 3 (2.91%) COBIT
7 2 (1.94%) COSO
7 2 (1.94%) SLA
8 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (37.86%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (39.81%) Terraform
2 35 (33.98%) Kubernetes
3 21 (20.39%) Ansible
4 6 (5.83%) Puppet
5 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.91%) Grafana
7 3 (2.91%) Kibana
7 3 (2.91%) logstash
7 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.94%) Argo
9 1 (0.97%) CASB
9 1 (0.97%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.97%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.97%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.80%) VMware
3 5 (4.85%) Splunk
4 3 (2.91%) Google
4 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.91%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.94%) Aruba
5 2 (1.94%) Blue Coat
5 2 (1.94%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.94%) F5
5 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.94%) Infoblox
5 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) BigPanda
6 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.97%) Veracode