Interactive Application Security Testing Contracts

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Interactive Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 698 839
Rank change year-on-year +119 +141 -142
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 11 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.008% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.009% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile £475 £583 £525
25th Percentile £531 £613 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £826 £738 £741
90th Percentile £908 £745 £840
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -31.03% +38.10% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Interactive 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +131 11 £688 -5.17% 9
London +100 8 £801 +20.83% 5
UK excluding London +54 3 £500 -31.03% 3
South West - 3 £500 - 2
Work from Home +124 2 £500 -31.03% 3

Interactive 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Snyk
3 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (63.64%) DevSecOps
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Application Security
5 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (45.45%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (36.36%) Information Security
6 4 (36.36%) Secure Coding
6 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
7 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 3 (27.27%) SIEM
7 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
8 2 (18.18%) GitOps
8 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) GCIA
2 1 (9.09%) GCIH
2 1 (9.09%) GIAC
2 1 (9.09%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Veracode