Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 465 562
Rank change year-on-year +130 +97 -106
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 56 33 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 23 22
10th Percentile £585 £435 £526
25th Percentile £638 £500 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £696
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.17% +11.32%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £823 £835 £750
England median daily rate £650 £625 £663
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.70% +12.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
East London +11 15 £650 -10.34%
Central London +36 1 £900 +46.94%
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) Miro
5 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.79%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.79%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.79%) MySQL
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 38 (67.86%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Financial Institution
3 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (55.36%) Project Manager
2 28 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 28 (50.00%) Security Project Manager
3 12 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 12 (21.43%) IT Manager
3 12 (21.43%) IT Project Manager
3 12 (21.43%) IT Security Manager
3 12 (21.43%) IT Security Project Manager
3 12 (21.43%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 10 (17.86%) CISSP Manager
4 10 (17.86%) Contracts Manager
4 10 (17.86%) IT Services Manager
4 10 (17.86%) Service Security Manager
5 7 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management Manager
6 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
6 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Delivery Project Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
1 3 (5.36%) Java EE
1 3 (5.36%) REST
1 3 (5.36%) SOAP
1 3 (5.36%) Spring
1 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.36%) PMI
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) IoT
3 1 (1.79%) PKI
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 24 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (41.07%) Project Management
3 23 (41.07%) Security Testing
4 22 (39.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 21 (37.50%) Application Security
6 18 (32.14%) Project Delivery
7 13 (23.21%) DevSecOps
8 12 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (19.64%) DevOps
10 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
10 10 (17.86%) Information Security
11 8 (14.29%) Project Governance
11 8 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 7 (12.50%) Interactive Application Security Testing
13 6 (10.71%) Budget Management
13 6 (10.71%) SDLC
13 6 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 5 (8.93%) Business Case
14 5 (8.93%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Java
2 4 (7.14%) Bash
2 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) CISM
1 15 (26.79%) CISSP
2 14 (25.00%) CISA
3 3 (5.36%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.57%) CRISC
5 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) CEH
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) GCIA
5 1 (1.79%) GCIH
5 1 (1.79%) GIAC
5 1 (1.79%) GSEC
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 31000
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (8.93%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Nessus
3 1 (1.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (3.57%) Veracode
2 2 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) ArcSight
3 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.79%) Qualys
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.79%) Trend Micro