Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 164 181
Rank change year-on-year +38 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 1 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.046% 0.057% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.062% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £569 £602
25th Percentile - £578 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -5.77% -
75th Percentile - £653 £700
90th Percentile - £666 £730
Central London median daily rate £900 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +46.94% -5.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 3,208 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.39% 91.55% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 2,170 2,934
10th Percentile £350 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 43
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £57.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft