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

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £725 - -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,504 883 1,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.20% 87.34% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 459 816
10th Percentile £198 £250 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 156 512
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.39 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.20 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.80 £54.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.63% +41.66% +15.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the East of England

Static 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 Static Application Security Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Essex - 1 £500 - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £750 -
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Google