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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 635 770
Rank change year-on-year +140 +135 -91
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 89 61 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.11% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 46 49
10th Percentile £506 £475 £496
25th Percentile £603 £553 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £725
90th Percentile £823 £818 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £427
% change year-on-year +4.00% +46.37% -23.41%

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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +129 69 £650 +4.00% 24
London +124 60 £650 +4.00% 13
Work from Home +118 31 £650 - 9
UK excluding London +50 13 £650 +4.00% 14
Scotland - 6 £488 -
North of England +28 2 £663 +32.50% 3
South East +23 2 £650 -13.33% 6
North West +14 2 £663 +17.78% 1
South West +12 2 £725 +16.00% 3
West Midlands +16 1 £750 +3.45%
Midlands +15 1 £750 +3.45%

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 (2.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.71%) Azure
2 27 (30.34%) AWS
3 11 (12.36%) SaaS
4 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (11.24%) GCP
4 10 (11.24%) GitHub
4 10 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (11.24%) IaaS
4 10 (11.24%) PaaS
5 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.49%) Miro
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.12%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.12%) Route 53
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) SSL
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) SonarQube
2 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.74%) GitLab
4 4 (4.49%) JIRA
5 2 (2.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.12%) Selenium
6 1 (1.12%) Snyk
General
1 48 (53.93%) Finance
2 12 (13.48%) Financial Institution
3 11 (12.36%) Banking
4 9 (10.11%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Front Office
5 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.49%) Retail
6 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Project Manager
1 25 (28.09%) Security Manager
1 25 (28.09%) Security Project Manager
2 13 (14.61%) Architect
2 13 (14.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 13 (14.61%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 13 (14.61%) Security Architect
2 13 (14.61%) Security Engineer
3 12 (13.48%) Applications Architect
4 10 (11.24%) Consultant
4 10 (11.24%) IT Manager
4 10 (11.24%) IT Project Manager
4 10 (11.24%) IT Security Manager
4 10 (11.24%) IT Security Project Manager
5 9 (10.11%) CISSP Manager
5 9 (10.11%) Security Consultant
6 8 (8.99%) Contracts Manager
6 8 (8.99%) IT Services Manager
6 8 (8.99%) Service Security Manager
7 5 (5.62%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) ARM Templates
1 10 (11.24%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (4.49%) GraphQL
2 4 (4.49%) Java EE
2 4 (4.49%) Kafka
2 4 (4.49%) REST
2 4 (4.49%) SOAP
2 4 (4.49%) Spring
2 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) RESTful
3 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.84%) Management Information System
2 11 (12.36%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.87%) PKI
4 4 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.37%) PMI
5 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.36%) Windows
2 6 (6.74%) Linux
3 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) zOS
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 40 (44.94%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (40.45%) Application Security
4 32 (35.96%) Security Testing
5 30 (33.71%) DevOps
5 30 (33.71%) DevSecOps
5 30 (33.71%) Project Management
6 25 (28.09%) Vulnerability Management
7 24 (26.97%) Threat Modelling
8 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
9 20 (22.47%) Information Security
9 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
10 17 (19.10%) Agile
10 17 (19.10%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 17 (19.10%) Test Automation
11 15 (16.85%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (16.85%) Project Delivery
12 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
13 11 (12.36%) Mentoring
13 11 (12.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) Java
2 6 (6.74%) C++
3 5 (5.62%) Bash
3 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.37%) Python
5 1 (1.12%) C#
5 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) CISSP
2 19 (21.35%) CISM
3 16 (17.98%) CISA
4 11 (12.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) Degree
6 4 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.49%) MCSE
6 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.37%) CRISC
7 3 (3.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CCNP
8 1 (1.12%) CEH
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) GCIA
8 1 (1.12%) GIAC
8 1 (1.12%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) NCSC
2 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.74%) NIST
4 5 (5.62%) QA
5 3 (3.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.12%) GDPR
6 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.62%) Hyper-V
2 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (22.47%) Kubernetes
1 20 (22.47%) Terraform
2 15 (16.85%) Ansible
3 5 (5.62%) SCCM
4 1 (1.12%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.12%) Nessus
4 1 (1.12%) Nmap
4 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Qualys
3 4 (4.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) F5
5 2 (2.25%) Checkmarx
5 2 (2.25%) Veracode
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Trend Micro