Interactive Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 - 551
Rank change year-on-year - - +129
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.014% - 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £516
25th Percentile £438 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.57%
75th Percentile £518 - £781
90th Percentile £537 - £793
UK median daily rate £518 - £688
% change year-on-year - - +19.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Interactive 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Interactive Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Interactive Application Security Testing

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 27 February 2026.

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 27 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
Midlands - 4 £442 -
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
North West - 1 £518 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £518 - 3
Interactive Application Security Testing
UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (20.00%) Anycast
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) NGFW
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) AppScan
1 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Metasploit
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Application Security
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (80.00%) OWASP
2 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
3 3 (60.00%) SABSA
3 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (60.00%) GRC
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (60.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Veracode
4 1 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
4 1 (20.00%) Tenable