Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.095% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - -
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
England median daily rate £588 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -18.97% +11.54% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 822 1,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.46% 88.39% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 429 736
10th Percentile £200 £230 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 174 583
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.17 £18.38 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £52.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -57.10% +38.38% +69.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.44 £63.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Suffolk - 2 £503 - 2
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto