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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 119 123
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +48
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.23% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.25% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £517 £679 £779
25th Percentile - £684 £799
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £725 £833
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% -12.91% +44.78%
75th Percentile £569 £763 £866
90th Percentile £600 - £887
Central London median daily rate £520 £713 £833
% change year-on-year -27.02% -14.41% +28.08%

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 2,082 1,631 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.71% 93.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,042 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.80 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £56.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £73.75 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.47% -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
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 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Gatling
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Security Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Product Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AssertJ
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (75.00%) Backlog Management
3 6 (75.00%) Product Backlog
3 6 (75.00%) Product Management
3 6 (75.00%) Programme Management
3 6 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (75.00%) SDLC
3 6 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) API Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft