DevSecOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DevSecOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevSecOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 359 505
Rank change year-on-year -107 +146 -89
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 499 930 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.93% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.98% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 338 463 586
10th Percentile £49,625 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £63,750 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,928 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +2.41% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +5.36% +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in the UK

DevSecOps
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -95 442 £75,000 -8.46% 159
UK excluding London -119 250 £70,000 -5.08% 92
Work from Home -72 218 £82,500 +9.03% 83
London -31 216 £92,500 +2.78% 76
South East +15 94 £64,250 -24.41% 27
Midlands +3 55 £72,500 -3.33% 13
West Midlands +28 44 £72,500 -3.33% 11
North of England -93 35 £65,000 -13.33% 18
South West -30 30 £75,000 +33.93% 22
Scotland -69 23 £66,250 -11.67% 5
Yorkshire +10 14 £55,173 -31.03% 12
North West -73 13 £65,000 -3.70% 3
East Midlands -23 11 £72,500 -3.33% 2
North East +5 8 £70,000 -1.75% 3
Wales -1 8 - - 2
East of England +8 6 £55,173 -21.18% 6

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 12 (2.40%) Confluence
2 9 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 229 (45.89%) Azure
2 187 (37.47%) AWS
3 69 (13.83%) Serverless
4 54 (10.82%) GitHub
5 52 (10.42%) SaaS
6 47 (9.42%) PaaS
7 46 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (9.22%) GCP
8 38 (7.62%) Azure AKS
9 34 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (6.01%) Amazon S3
11 29 (5.81%) IaaS
12 26 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (4.61%) CloudFront
15 22 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (4.41%) Entra ID
16 21 (4.21%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (18.64%) Firewall
2 48 (9.62%) WAN
3 47 (9.42%) VPN
4 36 (7.21%) Internet
4 36 (7.21%) LAN
5 26 (5.21%) DNS
6 22 (4.41%) Network Security
7 12 (2.40%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.00%) OSPF
9 4 (0.80%) BGP
9 4 (0.80%) HSRP
9 4 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.80%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.20%) AMQP
11 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.20%) VLAN
11 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 14 (2.81%) Relational Database
2 14 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.61%) Big Data
4 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.80%) Hadoop
5 9 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.60%) CockroachDB
7 7 (1.40%) Power BI
7 7 (1.40%) Redis
8 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.20%) Metadata
9 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.80%) Parquet
9 4 (0.80%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.40%) Looker
11 2 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (10.42%) Git
2 33 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.21%) GitLab
4 16 (3.21%) JIRA
5 14 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.40%) Burp Suite
7 11 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.60%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.60%) Jaeger
8 8 (1.60%) Metasploit
9 7 (1.40%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (1.00%) git-flow
10 5 (1.00%) Postman
11 3 (0.60%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.40%) JUnit
12 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.20%) Mockito
General
1 152 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 132 (26.45%) Finance
3 60 (12.02%) Retail
4 29 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.61%) Banking
6 23 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.21%) Automotive
8 16 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.00%) Health Technology
11 10 (2.00%) Law
12 9 (1.80%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.20%) Games
15 6 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.00%) Police
17 4 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (25.25%) Architect
2 95 (19.04%) Senior
3 85 (17.03%) Lead
4 49 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (9.42%) Developer
6 38 (7.62%) Security Engineer
7 33 (6.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 25 (5.01%) Consultant
8 25 (5.01%) Lead Developer
8 25 (5.01%) Security Manager
9 24 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
10 22 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
10 22 (4.41%) Technical Architect
11 21 (4.21%) Infrastructure Architect
12 20 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.81%) Security Architect
14 18 (3.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (13.83%) REST
2 49 (9.82%) .NET
3 46 (9.22%) OAuth
4 42 (8.42%) OpenID
5 39 (7.82%) Middleware
6 27 (5.41%) Node.js
7 25 (5.01%) Web Services
8 24 (4.81%) Kafka
8 24 (4.81%) SAML
9 17 (3.41%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.61%) React
10 13 (2.61%) YAML
11 12 (2.40%) HTML
12 11 (2.20%) ADO
12 11 (2.20%) GraphQL
13 10 (2.00%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.00%) CSS
14 9 (1.80%) Azure Blueprints
14 9 (1.80%) Spring
15 8 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.42%) Management Information System
2 37 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.01%) Mobile App
4 24 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 21 (4.21%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.81%) PKI
8 12 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 10 (2.00%) Blockchain
10 10 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.40%) PropTech
13 7 (1.40%) Reinsurance
14 5 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 117 (23.45%) Linux
2 64 (12.83%) Windows
3 49 (9.82%) Ubuntu
4 37 (7.41%) VMS
5 12 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.00%) Unix
7 9 (1.80%) Solaris
8 5 (1.00%) CentOS
9 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Android
11 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (51.70%) Agile
2 175 (35.07%) DevOps
3 142 (28.46%) CI/CD
4 104 (20.84%) Cybersecurity
5 99 (19.84%) Application Security
6 95 (19.04%) Scrum
7 94 (18.84%) Software Engineering
8 90 (18.04%) Microservices
9 88 (17.64%) Cloud Security
10 85 (17.03%) Containerisation
11 81 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 80 (16.03%) Identity Access Management
13 69 (13.83%) Kanban
13 69 (13.83%) Mentoring
14 66 (13.23%) Information Security
15 62 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (11.62%) TDD
17 53 (10.62%) Collaborative Culture
18 52 (10.42%) Test Automation
19 50 (10.02%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.64%) Java
2 92 (18.44%) Python
3 70 (14.03%) SQL
4 41 (8.22%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.41%) C#
7 23 (4.61%) Kotlin
8 15 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.61%) Bash
10 12 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.00%) Go
12 5 (1.00%) VB
13 4 (0.80%) Bicep
13 4 (0.80%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
14 3 (0.60%) Ruby
15 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (24.45%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.62%) Degree
3 54 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 45 (9.02%) DV Cleared
5 38 (7.62%) AWS Certification
6 33 (6.61%) Azure Certification
7 31 (6.21%) CISSP
8 22 (4.41%) CISM
9 20 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.61%) CEH
13 12 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.80%) GIAC
16 8 (1.60%) CCSP
16 8 (1.60%) GPEN
17 6 (1.20%) MCSE
17 6 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 40 (8.02%) NIST
2 35 (7.01%) QA
3 18 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 15 (3.01%) NCSC
5 13 (2.61%) GRC
6 12 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.40%) GDPR
7 6 (1.20%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.40%) COBIT
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 86 (17.23%) Docker
2 54 (10.82%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (3.61%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.80%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) LXC
Systems Management
1 130 (26.05%) Kubernetes
2 119 (23.85%) Terraform
3 83 (16.63%) Ansible
4 12 (2.40%) Nessus
5 9 (1.80%) Nmap
5 9 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.60%) Kiali
6 8 (1.60%) Puppet
7 7 (1.40%) Grafana
8 6 (1.20%) CASB
8 6 (1.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (1.00%) Kibana
10 4 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.40%) Argo
11 2 (0.40%) Istio
11 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.40%) Podman
11 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 120 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.81%) Splunk
3 16 (3.21%) ForgeRock
3 16 (3.21%) Sitecore
4 12 (2.40%) Qualys
4 12 (2.40%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.00%) Google
5 10 (2.00%) VMware
6 9 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.60%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.60%) Oracle
8 7 (1.40%) Databricks
9 6 (1.20%) Confluent
9 6 (1.20%) Informatica
10 5 (1.00%) McAfee
11 4 (0.80%) Cisco
11 4 (0.80%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.80%) IBM
11 4 (0.80%) Meraki
11 4 (0.80%) SAP