Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 518 657 762
Rank change year-on-year +139 +105 -102
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 80 62 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.10% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 47 59
10th Percentile £585 £475 £428
25th Percentile £641 £531 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £783 £814 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £428
% change year-on-year +4.00% +46.03% -20.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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 +140 61 £650 +4.00% 17
London +124 55 £650 +4.00% 10
Work from Home +138 34 £650 - 4
UK excluding London +59 9 £650 +4.00% 6
Scotland - 4 £494 -
South East +27 2 £650 -13.33% 1
North of England +30 1 £750 +50.00% 2
West Midlands +23 1 £750 +3.45% 1
South West +21 1 £625 - 2
Midlands +16 1 £750 +3.45% 1
North West +15 1 £750 +33.33% 2

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) Azure
2 21 (26.25%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.75%) GitHub
3 11 (13.75%) SaaS
4 10 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (12.50%) IaaS
4 10 (12.50%) PaaS
5 6 (7.50%) GCP
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) Miro
6 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) SSL
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 8 (10.00%) GitLab
3 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.25%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 43 (53.75%) Finance
2 12 (15.00%) Financial Institution
3 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 27 (33.75%) Security Manager
2 27 (33.75%) Security Project Manager
3 12 (15.00%) Consultant
3 12 (15.00%) IT Manager
3 12 (15.00%) IT Project Manager
3 12 (15.00%) IT Security Manager
3 12 (15.00%) IT Security Project Manager
4 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 11 (13.75%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 11 (13.75%) Security Consultant
5 10 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
5 10 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
5 10 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Service Security Manager
6 9 (11.25%) CISSP Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Vulnerability Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 10 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
2 3 (3.75%) Java EE
2 3 (3.75%) REST
2 3 (3.75%) SOAP
2 3 (3.75%) Spring
2 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) RESTful
4 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.00%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.75%) PMI
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
4 2 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 37 (46.25%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (40.00%) Project Management
4 31 (38.75%) Security Testing
5 29 (36.25%) Application Security
5 29 (36.25%) Vulnerability Management
6 28 (35.00%) DevOps
7 27 (33.75%) DevSecOps
8 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
8 17 (21.25%) Project Delivery
9 16 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 15 (18.75%) Information Security
10 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
12 13 (16.25%) Agile
12 13 (16.25%) Threat Modelling
13 12 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 12 (15.00%) SDLC
14 11 (13.75%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) Java
2 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.00%) Bash
3 4 (5.00%) Python
4 3 (3.75%) SQL
5 2 (2.50%) C++
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) CISSP
2 16 (20.00%) CISM
3 13 (16.25%) CISA
4 11 (13.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) CRISC
5 4 (5.00%) Degree
6 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.75%) MCSE
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) CEH
8 1 (1.25%) GCIA
8 1 (1.25%) GCIH
8 1 (1.25%) GIAC
8 1 (1.25%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) NCSC
2 6 (7.50%) NIST
3 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 15 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) Nessus
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Qualys
3 2 (2.50%) Checkmarx
3 2 (2.50%) F5
3 2 (2.50%) Splunk
3 2 (2.50%) Veracode
3 2 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (1.25%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.25%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) Trend Micro