Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the City of London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static 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 114 125 175
Rank change year-on-year +11 +50 +9
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.091% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.10% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £679 £686 £513
25th Percentile £684 £722 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £788 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +36.96% -10.68%
75th Percentile £763 £847 £631
90th Percentile - £879 £658
Central London median daily rate £725 £788 £613
% change year-on-year -7.94% +28.57% -4.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Static 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Key Management
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7