Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 127 123 139
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 +51
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.15% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.16% 0.044%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £700 £823 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% +37.08% +23.08%

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 1,650 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.76% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

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

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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