Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £750 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +50.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 403 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.50% 92.86% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 244 298
10th Percentile £310 £291 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £558
90th Percentile £675 £639 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.47 £24.09 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%
75th Percentile £42.25 £81.75 £39.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Cheshire

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
Knutsford - 3 £651 - 4
Dynamic Application Security Testing
North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode