DevSecOps Engineer Jobs

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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 879 886 1223
Rank change year-on-year +7 +337 -344
Permanent jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 43 59 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.063% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.069% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 40 44 40
10th Percentile £62,375 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £100,250 £112,625 £100,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +11 40 £72,500 -14.71% 13
UK excluding London -41 26 £72,500 -19.44% 5
London +34 14 £82,500 -8.33% 8
Midlands - 13 £72,500 - 2
West Midlands - 13 £72,500 - 2
Work from Home +34 7 £70,000 - 6
South West -24 6 £70,000 -
South East -4 3 £70,000 -17.65%
Scotland - 3 £90,000 - 1
North of England +23 1 £70,000 -26.32% 2
North East - 1 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 43 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 38 (88.37%) AWS
3 26 (60.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
5 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
5 19 (44.19%) Serverless
6 18 (41.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (39.53%) Cloud Security
8 16 (37.21%) Python
8 16 (37.21%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (34.88%) AWS CloudTrail
9 15 (34.88%) Incident Response
9 15 (34.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 14 (32.56%) PropTech
10 14 (32.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (32.56%) Threat Modelling
10 14 (32.56%) Docker
10 14 (32.56%) DevOps
10 14 (32.56%) AWS Certification
10 14 (32.56%) Amazon S3
11 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (30.23%) Security Operations
11 13 (30.23%) NIST
12 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
12 12 (27.91%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (27.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (27.91%) Azure
12 12 (27.91%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (2.33%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 38 (88.37%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) Serverless
3 16 (37.21%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (34.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 15 (34.88%) AWS CloudTrail
5 14 (32.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (32.56%) Amazon S3
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (27.91%) Azure
6 12 (27.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (20.93%) AWS Control Tower
8 7 (16.28%) GitHub
9 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (4.65%) CloudFront
10 2 (4.65%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Snyk
3 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Games
3 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) OAuth
1 3 (6.98%) OpenID
1 3 (6.98%) SAML
2 1 (2.33%) ADO
2 1 (2.33%) boto
2 1 (2.33%) Loki
2 1 (2.33%) PySpark
2 1 (2.33%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) PropTech
2 7 (16.28%) PKI
3 5 (11.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 26 (60.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
4 17 (39.53%) Cloud Security
5 15 (34.88%) Incident Response
6 14 (32.56%) DevOps
6 14 (32.56%) Threat Modelling
7 13 (30.23%) Security Operations
7 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
8 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (25.58%) Agile
10 8 (18.60%) Vulnerability Management
11 7 (16.28%) Data Security
11 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (16.28%) SIEM
12 6 (13.95%) Fintech
12 6 (13.95%) Penetration Testing
12 6 (13.95%) Static Application Security Testing
13 5 (11.63%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
2 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Go
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (41.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (30.23%) NIST
3 3 (6.98%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.93%) Ansible
2 9 (20.93%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Argo
3 2 (4.65%) CASB
4 1 (2.33%) Anchore
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Splunk
2 3 (6.98%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) Okta
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft