Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 - -
75th Percentile £635 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
North West median daily rate £617 £750 £500
% change year-on-year -17.70% +50.00% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Static 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 617 397 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.65% 95.20% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 258 309
10th Percentile £313 £299 £305
25th Percentile £367 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £638 £616
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 34
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.08 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £23.18 £32.95 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -29.67% +50.87% -4.13%
75th Percentile £43.00 £83.31 £38.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £23.45
% change year-on-year +41.69% +35.44% -37.13%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in Cheshire

Static 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 Static Application Security Testing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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 - 8 £615 - 3
Static Application Security Testing
North West

Static 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 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) GitLab
3 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (22.22%) Snyk
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Cryptography Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Java SE
1 1 (11.11%) JCE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevSecOps
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
4 6 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
6 4 (44.44%) GitOps
6 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (44.44%) Secrets Management
7 3 (33.33%) API Integration
7 3 (33.33%) Application Security
7 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (22.22%) Agile
8 2 (22.22%) OWASP
8 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (22.22%) SDLC
8 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) OSCP
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Argo
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 2 (22.22%) linkerd
4 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
1 4 (44.44%) Veracode
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Checkmarx
4 1 (11.11%) Sonatype