Secure Coding Contracts in England

Secure Code Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 603 613
Rank change year-on-year +143 +10 -92
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 88 65 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 45 119
10th Percentile £450 £375 £418
25th Percentile £550 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +18.56%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £650
90th Percentile £702 £730 £825
UK median daily rate £648 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +15.01% -2.09% +16.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.10
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £80.40
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in England.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in England.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +114 40 £613 -4.85% 27
South East +29 21 £675 +18.94% 5
South West +36 17 £663 +65.63% 7
North of England +28 9 £624 +13.36% 5
Yorkshire - 8 £625 - 3
East of England +11 1 £675 - 3
North West +4 1 £425 -19.05% 2
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) AWS
2 29 (32.95%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GitHub
4 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.09%) GCP
5 7 (7.95%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.95%) Serverless
6 6 (6.82%) Apigee
6 6 (6.82%) Azure API Management
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Batch
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.82%) Kong
6 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) Firewall
2 9 (10.23%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.95%) DNS
4 6 (6.82%) HTTP
4 6 (6.82%) VPN
5 5 (5.68%) Network Security
6 3 (3.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.27%) SAN
8 1 (1.14%) DHCP
8 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.86%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (21.59%) Oracle Database
3 18 (20.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 7 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.82%) Big Data
5 6 (6.82%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.82%) OLTP
5 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.68%) GIS
6 5 (5.68%) Spatial Data
7 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.14%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.14%) MySQL
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (23.86%) Git
2 11 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.09%) JIRA
4 7 (7.95%) CircleCI
4 7 (7.95%) Travis CI
5 6 (6.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.82%) GitLab
5 6 (6.82%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.14%) Darcs
7 1 (1.14%) Gradle
7 1 (1.14%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (1.14%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (17.05%) Finance
2 13 (14.77%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Banking
4 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.41%) Electronics
5 3 (3.41%) Marketing
5 3 (3.41%) Retail
5 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.27%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (59.09%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 14 (15.91%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Security Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Software Developer
6 5 (5.68%) GIS Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Lead
6 5 (5.68%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Applications Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Spatial Developer
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Developer
9 2 (2.27%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Spring
2 16 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 14 (15.91%) React
4 12 (13.64%) JSON
4 12 (13.64%) XML
5 9 (10.23%) .NET
6 8 (9.09%) Web Services
7 7 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.82%) ARM Templates
8 6 (6.82%) REST
8 6 (6.82%) YAML
9 4 (4.55%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.55%) HTML
10 3 (3.41%) CSS
10 3 (3.41%) Flask
10 3 (3.41%) RESTful
11 2 (2.27%) Android SDK
11 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
11 2 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (2.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Data Structures
1 6 (6.82%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.27%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.27%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.14%) CBDC
4 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.14%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.14%) PKI
4 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Debian
2 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) DevOps
2 38 (43.18%) Agile
2 38 (43.18%) Clean Code
3 32 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (28.41%) Migration
6 24 (27.27%) Data Migration
7 23 (26.14%) Software Engineering
8 20 (22.73%) Project Management
9 19 (21.59%) Architectural Design
10 18 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (20.45%) Scrum
10 18 (20.45%) Software Testing
11 16 (18.18%) Change Management
11 16 (18.18%) Programme Management
12 14 (15.91%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (15.91%) OO
12 14 (15.91%) OOP
13 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
13 13 (14.77%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.64%) Python
2 28 (31.82%) Java
3 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.45%) PL/SQL
4 18 (20.45%) SQL
5 15 (17.05%) PowerShell
6 14 (15.91%) C
7 11 (12.50%) C#
8 6 (6.82%) Bash
9 2 (2.27%) C++
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) CISSP
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 5 (5.68%) CISM
6 4 (4.55%) CEH
6 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.41%) CSSLP
7 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.27%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.14%) CISA
9 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) QA
2 8 (9.09%) NIST
3 7 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.41%) GPG13
4 3 (3.41%) NCSC
4 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.27%) COBIT
5 2 (2.27%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Terraform
2 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.50%) Grafana
3 11 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.95%) Ansible
4 7 (7.95%) Kibana
4 7 (7.95%) logstash
4 7 (7.95%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.95%) Puppet
5 6 (6.82%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.27%) Nessus
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) Splunk
4 6 (6.82%) Qualys
5 5 (5.68%) ESRI
6 4 (4.55%) SAP
7 3 (3.41%) VMware
8 2 (2.27%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.27%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.27%) Veracode
9 1 (1.14%) Google
9 1 (1.14%) Remedy