Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £571 £685 -
% change year-on-year -16.64% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 84 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 86.57% 84.85% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 58 119
10th Percentile £263 £315 £363
25th Percentile £306 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £523 £488
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.23% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £24.35 - £76.59
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £78.19
Median % change year-on-year - - +525.48%
75th Percentile - - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.60
% change year-on-year -5.05% -12.24% +38.90%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Coventry

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode