Secure Coding Contracts in the City of London

Secure Code Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 125 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 +40
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 10 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.54% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.46% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £405 £543 £540
25th Percentile £547 £581 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +13.73% +34.92%
75th Percentile £719 £765 £722
90th Percentile £726 - £769
Central London median daily rate £675 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% +32.28%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,937 3,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.00% 91.41% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,324 2,086
10th Percentile £338 £363 £349
25th Percentile £434 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 21
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.88 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +14.29% -18.36%
75th Percentile £56.75 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) DocumentDB
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Snyk
2 1 (10.00%) Storybook
2 1 (10.00%) Vite
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) AS400
3 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) iSeries
3 1 (10.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (20.00%) OWASP
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) SOLID
3 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) RPG
2 1 (10.00%) Rust
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CFA
1 1 (10.00%) CISA
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) CRISC
1 1 (10.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) WCAG
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (10.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (10.00%) FNZ
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable