Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 441 566
Rank change year-on-year +131 +125 -102
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 31 27 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 36
10th Percentile £595 £503 £449
25th Percentile £600 £556 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year - +9.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £738 £700
90th Percentile £685 - £731
UK median daily rate £650 £638 £644
% change year-on-year +1.96% -0.97% +7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Dynamic Application Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
1 11 (35.48%) SaaS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) GitHub
2 10 (32.26%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (32.26%) IaaS
2 10 (32.26%) PaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Miro
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Route 53
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
1 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) SonarQube
2 5 (16.13%) GitLab
3 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
4 1 (3.23%) Snyk
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Consultant
1 5 (16.13%) Project Manager
1 5 (16.13%) Security Consultant
1 5 (16.13%) Security Manager
1 5 (16.13%) Security Project Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Information Security Consultant
3 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Manager
4 2 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) IT Security Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) ARM Templates
1 10 (32.26%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.45%) Java EE
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
2 2 (6.45%) Spring
2 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Management Information System
1 10 (32.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 21 (67.74%) DevOps
3 17 (54.84%) DevSecOps
4 16 (51.61%) Test Automation
5 15 (48.39%) Application Security
5 15 (48.39%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
6 14 (45.16%) Security Testing
7 12 (38.71%) Software Engineering
8 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
9 10 (32.26%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (32.26%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (32.26%) Functional Testing
9 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
9 10 (32.26%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (32.26%) Performance Analysis
9 10 (32.26%) Project Management
9 10 (32.26%) Release Management
9 10 (32.26%) SDLC
10 9 (29.03%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) CISSP
4 3 (9.68%) CISM
4 3 (9.68%) CRISC
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.23%) MCSE
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) NCSC
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Ansible
2 14 (45.16%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.23%) Nmap
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM