Secure Coding Contracts

Secure Code Development
UK

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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 614 675
Rank change year-on-year +118 +61 -106
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 90 93 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 65 135
10th Percentile £452 £395 £404
25th Percentile £550 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +16.16%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £663
90th Percentile £706 £728 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £555 £523
% change year-on-year +17.12% +6.09% +7.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Secure Coding 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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +117 85 £650 +8.33% 61
UK excluding London +57 48 £650 +17.12% 39
London +97 40 £650 +4.00% 31
Work from Home +110 37 £638 +13.23% 26
South East +25 15 £675 +17.39% 20
South West +20 15 £650 +62.50% 3
North of England +40 14 £622 +10.48% 4
Yorkshire +27 11 £625 +4.17%
Scotland +33 3 £621 +27.33%
North West +28 3 £463 -17.85% 4
East of England +12 1 £675 - 6

Secure Coding
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 11 (12.22%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) JBoss
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) AWS
2 31 (34.44%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) GitHub
4 14 (15.56%) GCP
5 9 (10.00%) Kong
6 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.89%) Serverless
7 7 (7.78%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.67%) Apigee
8 6 (6.67%) Azure API Management
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Batch
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.67%) Firewall
2 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
3 10 (11.11%) DNS
3 10 (11.11%) HTTP
4 9 (10.00%) VPN
5 8 (8.89%) Network Security
6 4 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.33%) BIG-IP
7 3 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (3.33%) SSL
8 1 (1.11%) DHCP
8 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.11%) SCCP
8 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.56%) Oracle Database
3 13 (14.44%) Oracle Database 11g
4 10 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (7.78%) Big Data
5 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.67%) OLTP
7 5 (5.56%) GIS
7 5 (5.56%) Spatial Data
8 4 (4.44%) MySQL
9 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.11%) Redis
11 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (24.44%) Git
2 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.22%) CircleCI
3 11 (12.22%) JIRA
4 10 (11.11%) GitLab
4 10 (11.11%) Travis CI
5 9 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (2.22%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.11%) Darcs
8 1 (1.11%) Gradle
8 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.11%) Maven
8 1 (1.11%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.11%) Mockito
8 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (22.22%) Finance
2 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Electronics
6 3 (3.33%) Marketing
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
6 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.22%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (53.33%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) Full Stack Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Security Architect
4 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Applications Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) GIS Developer
9 4 (4.44%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Applications Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Senior
10 3 (3.33%) Spatial Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) JSON
1 17 (18.89%) XML
2 16 (17.78%) AngularJS
3 14 (15.56%) React
4 12 (13.33%) Spring
5 10 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (11.11%) YAML
6 8 (8.89%) Web Services
7 6 (6.67%) .NET
7 6 (6.67%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.67%) HTML
8 5 (5.56%) CSS
8 5 (5.56%) REST
9 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.44%) RESTful
10 3 (3.33%) Flask
11 2 (2.22%) Android SDK
11 2 (2.22%) Node.js
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (2.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.22%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.22%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.11%) CBDC
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.11%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Android
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.22%) Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.00%) Agile
3 28 (31.11%) Clean Code
4 26 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (28.89%) Unit Testing
5 20 (22.22%) Migration
5 20 (22.22%) Project Management
6 19 (21.11%) Data Migration
6 19 (21.11%) Software Engineering
7 18 (20.00%) Scrum
8 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
8 17 (18.89%) Threat Modelling
9 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (17.78%) DevSecOps
10 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 15 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (15.56%) Architectural Design
11 14 (15.56%) Change Management
11 14 (15.56%) Information Security
11 14 (15.56%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) Python
2 32 (35.56%) Java
3 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 15 (16.67%) SQL
6 13 (14.44%) C
6 13 (14.44%) PL/SQL
7 9 (10.00%) Bash
7 9 (10.00%) C#
8 8 (8.89%) C++
9 3 (3.33%) ActionScript
9 3 (3.33%) Go
10 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.11%) R
11 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) CISSP
4 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) CISM
5 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.44%) CEH
7 3 (3.33%) CSSLP
7 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.22%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (1.11%) CLAS
9 1 (1.11%) GCIA
9 1 (1.11%) GCIH
9 1 (1.11%) GIAC
9 1 (1.11%) GSEC
9 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.78%) QA
2 10 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (10.00%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.33%) GPG13
4 3 (3.33%) NCSC
4 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.22%) COBIT
5 2 (2.22%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.11%) GDPR
6 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) Terraform
2 18 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.56%) Grafana
3 14 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.22%) Ansible
5 10 (11.11%) Kibana
5 10 (11.11%) logstash
5 10 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 10 (11.11%) Puppet
6 9 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.22%) Nessus
8 1 (1.11%) CASB
8 1 (1.11%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Oracle
2 10 (11.11%) Splunk
3 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.67%) Qualys
5 5 (5.56%) ESRI
6 4 (4.44%) Google
7 3 (3.33%) F5
7 3 (3.33%) SAP
8 2 (2.22%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.22%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.22%) Veracode
9 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.11%) VMware