Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 130 144
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +48
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.100% 0.13% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £600 £809 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £823 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +37.08% +23.08%
75th Percentile £800 £836 -
90th Percentile £860 - -
London median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Central London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
City of London -4 2 £700 -14.89% 2
Dynamic Application Security Testing
London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft