Secure Coding Contracts in the City of London

Secure Code Development
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 Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 165 183
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 -29
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 4 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.19% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £523 £581 £413
25th Percentile £538 £608 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £590
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +18.64% -7.45%
75th Percentile £594 £783 £688
90th Percentile £598 £840 £693
Central London median daily rate £575 £669 £517
% change year-on-year -14.02% +29.35% -18.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Secure Coding 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 1,955 3,266 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.46% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 2,203 2,972
10th Percentile £356 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +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 11 25 44
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (25.00%) Darcs
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (25.00%) CBDC
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Currency
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) OWASP
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) CAP Theorem
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk