IBM Rational AppScan
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AppScan skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AppScan over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 713 833
Rank change year-on-year +121 +120 -152
Contract jobs citing AppScan 6 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.010% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.066% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £545 £463 £425
25th Percentile £555 £503 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +11.10% -10.26% +10.38%
75th Percentile £632 £575 £625
90th Percentile £668 £619 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £575 -
% change year-on-year -0.43% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

AppScan is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

AppScan
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AppScan as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AppScan in the UK

AppScan
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AppScan.

Daily rate trend for AppScan in the UK

AppScan
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AppScan within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +130 5 £573 +14.50% 2
UK excluding London +68 5 £573 -0.43% 3
North of England +36 4 £569 +13.75% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £569 - 2
Work from Home +129 1 £594 +13.14%
London +101 1 £645 +43.33%
Wales +16 1 £690 +6.15%

AppScan
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Control
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) Project Management
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Application Security
4 2 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Graylog
1 6 (100.00%) HP Fortify
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Nessus
1 6 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Puppet
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) WebInspect
2 2 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
1 6 (100.00%) Veracode
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft