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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 114 125
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +53
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.33% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.36% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £688 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £728 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% +7.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £710 £781 £688
90th Percentile £824 £814 -
Central London median daily rate £520 £728 £675
% change year-on-year -28.52% +7.78% +32.35%

All Process & 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 1,765 1,689 2,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.01% 91.64% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 1,038 1,488
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Static Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the City of London

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes