Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 126 176
Rank change year-on-year +13 +50 +8
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.046% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.050% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £680 - £569
25th Percentile £688 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £900 £613
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +46.94% -4.85%
75th Percentile £763 - £653
90th Percentile - - £666
Central London median daily rate £725 £900 £613
% change year-on-year -19.44% +46.94% -4.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the City of London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Application Security
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Key Management
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) CASB
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) Rapid7