Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Secure Code Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £679 - -
25th Percentile £703 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - -
75th Percentile £828 - -
90th Percentile £856 - -
England median daily rate £558 £638 £640
% change year-on-year -12.55% -0.39% +11.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,421 926 1,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.76% 85.98% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 419 812
10th Percentile £196 £242 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £591
90th Percentile £675 £689 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 160 437
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.07 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +44.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the East of England

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the East of England

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £850 - 2
Hertfordshire - 1 £675 - 1
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk