Secure Coding Contracts in England

Secure Code Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 494 667
Rank change year-on-year +90 +173 -40
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 110 95 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 69 53
10th Percentile £469 £475 £363
25th Percentile £525 £550 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £610 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £650
90th Percentile £751 £690 £728
UK median daily rate £602 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +0.25% +4.35% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Secure Coding 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +83 63 £589 +2.43% 8
South East +35 30 £650 +1.56% 3
North of England +37 14 £550 -4.35% 5
North West +33 9 £506 +6.58% 3
Yorkshire +15 3 £624 +8.43%
Midlands -1 2 £356 -47.26% 1
North East - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
South West +19 1 £700 +16.67% 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 9 (8.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (7.27%) Confluence
2 8 (7.27%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (5.45%) Apache
4 5 (4.55%) CMS
4 5 (4.55%) Drupal
5 4 (3.64%) WordPress
6 1 (0.91%) SAS
Business Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle iProcurement
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.64%) AWS
2 28 (25.45%) Azure
3 8 (7.27%) GitHub
4 5 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.55%) GCP
4 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.64%) Azure API Management
5 4 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.73%) Kong
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (0.91%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.91%) Figma
7 1 (0.91%) IaaS
7 1 (0.91%) OCI
7 1 (0.91%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) Internet
2 10 (9.09%) Firewall
3 9 (8.18%) SSL
4 8 (7.27%) HTTP
4 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.73%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.73%) DNS
5 3 (2.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (2.73%) Network Security
5 3 (2.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (2.73%) VPN
6 1 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (30.91%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (30.00%) Oracle Database
3 22 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 14 (12.73%) NoSQL
6 11 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 10 (9.09%) MongoDB
8 8 (7.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 6 (5.45%) MySQL
9 6 (5.45%) Redis
10 5 (4.55%) Big Data
10 5 (4.55%) Couchbase
10 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.91%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (14.55%) JIRA
2 12 (10.91%) Git
3 11 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (7.27%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (5.45%) fastlane
6 6 (5.45%) GitLab
7 5 (4.55%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.73%) Travis CI
10 2 (1.82%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.91%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.91%) JUnit
11 1 (0.91%) XCTest
11 1 (0.91%) XCUITest
General
1 23 (20.91%) Finance
2 19 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 9 (8.18%) Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.91%) Electronics
8 1 (0.91%) International Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) Architect
2 14 (12.73%) Java Developer
3 12 (10.91%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 10 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 10 (9.09%) Senior
6 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Angular Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Analyst Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Consultant
8 6 (5.45%) Oracle Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.09%) GraphQL
1 21 (19.09%) Spring Boot
2 19 (17.27%) RESTful
3 18 (16.36%) Spring
4 14 (12.73%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.82%) XML
6 12 (10.91%) CSS
6 12 (10.91%) HTML
6 12 (10.91%) Web Services
7 11 (10.00%) J2EE
8 10 (9.09%) REST
9 8 (7.27%) Lucene
9 8 (7.27%) React
10 7 (6.36%) Node.js
11 6 (5.45%) jQuery
11 6 (5.45%) SOAP
11 6 (5.45%) Spring MVC
11 6 (5.45%) Spring Security
12 5 (4.55%) gRPC
12 5 (4.55%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Derivative
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.18%) Linux
2 5 (4.55%) Windows
3 4 (3.64%) Android
3 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.45%) DevOps
2 37 (33.64%) Clean Code
3 32 (29.09%) Software Engineering
4 30 (27.27%) Agile
5 25 (22.73%) Unit Testing
6 23 (20.91%) Scrum
7 22 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 22 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 22 (20.00%) Migration
7 22 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (18.18%) CRUD
8 20 (18.18%) Microservices
9 19 (17.27%) Design Patterns
9 19 (17.27%) SDLC
10 18 (16.36%) Software Testing
11 17 (15.45%) Application Security
12 15 (13.64%) DevSecOps
12 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.73%) Threat Modelling
13 14 (12.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.27%) Java
1 52 (47.27%) SQL
2 33 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 22 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (17.27%) Python
5 8 (7.27%) C++
6 7 (6.36%) C#
7 4 (3.64%) Bash
7 4 (3.64%) PHP
8 3 (2.73%) ActionScript
8 3 (2.73%) C
8 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.73%) R
9 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.91%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) Degree
4 11 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.27%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.36%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.64%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.73%) CISSP
9 2 (1.82%) CISM
10 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.91%) CEH
10 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.91%) GIAC
10 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.91%) PMP
10 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) GDPR
1 6 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.45%) NIST
1 6 (5.45%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.91%) COBIT
3 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.91%) PSD2
System Software
1 15 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.82%) Terraform
3 4 (3.64%) Ansible
4 3 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (2.73%) Grafana
4 3 (2.73%) Kibana
4 3 (2.73%) logstash
4 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Oracle
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.55%) Databricks
4 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.64%) Splunk
4 4 (3.64%) Zend
5 3 (2.73%) F5
6 2 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) ESRI
7 1 (0.91%) New Relic
7 1 (0.91%) PayPal
7 1 (0.91%) SAP