Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Secure Code Development
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 51 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +40
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.08% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £534 - -
25th Percentile £536 £625 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +31.31% -8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £518
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £563 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +22.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Secure Coding falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 325 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 88.89% 83.12% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 230 439
10th Percentile £227 £245 £275
25th Percentile £339 £402 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £541 £558 £613
90th Percentile £640 £650 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 9 17
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.70 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% +49.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £24.00
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £26.40
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +6 4 £563 -13.46% 4
Secure Coding
South East

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Storybook
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Vitest
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) API Development
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) VMware