Secure Coding Contracts in Central London

Secure Code Development
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 124 161
Rank change year-on-year +1 +37 +38
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 9 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.44% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.46% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £392 £543 £578
25th Percentile £525 £581 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% +32.28%
75th Percentile £725 £765 £639
90th Percentile £726 - £691
London median daily rate £625 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,919 2,169 3,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.66% 91.36% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,502 2,283
10th Percentile £338 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £715
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 25
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £16.61
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £88.38 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.81 £32.29 £40.77
% change year-on-year -4.60% -20.80% +14.85%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in Central London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in Central London

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in Central London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in Central London

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 0 9 £675 -6.90% 7
Secure Coding
London

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) CloudFront
2 2 (22.22%) Route 53
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) DocumentDB
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Storybook
2 1 (11.11%) Vite
2 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Management Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) AS400
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) iSeries
3 1 (11.11%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) SOLID
3 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Key Management
4 1 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) COBOL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) RPG
2 1 (11.11%) Rust
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CFA
1 1 (11.11%) CISA
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CRISC
1 1 (11.11%) CSSLP
1 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Argo
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Avaloq
2 1 (11.11%) FNZ
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Tenable