Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 125 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.097% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £779 -
25th Percentile £675 £799 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £833 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% - -
75th Percentile £725 £866 -
90th Percentile - £887 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £833 -
% change year-on-year -21.92% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Static Application Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Static Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Static Application Security Testing

Static 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform