Interactive Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Interactive Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 644 768
Rank change year-on-year +111 +124 -152
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 10 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.008% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.009% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £475 £578 £524
25th Percentile £531 £600 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £826 £741 £748
90th Percentile £908 £746 £863
UK median daily rate £688 £675 £675
% change year-on-year +1.85% - +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Interactive Application Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London +112 7 £801 +20.83% 5
South West - 3 £500 -
Interactive Application Security Testing
UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Snyk
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (40.00%) Application Security
4 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 3 (30.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) SIEM
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) GCIA
2 1 (10.00%) GCIH
2 1 (10.00%) GIAC
2 1 (10.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Veracode