Secure Coding Contracts in England

Secure Code Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 454 586
Rank change year-on-year +36 +132 +27
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 67 88 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 67 45
10th Percentile £375 £450 £375
25th Percentile £519 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £700 £688 £650
90th Percentile £748 £706 £730
UK median daily rate £638 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -1.92% +15.45% -2.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in England.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in England.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in England

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +34 36 £675 +12.50% 78
South East +42 17 £650 -3.70% 37
North of England +16 6 £368 -40.98% 56
North West +21 5 £368 -13.41% 38
South West +32 3 £600 -9.43% 32
East Midlands - 2 £406 - 13
Midlands - 2 £406 - 35
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 16
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) Apache
2 4 (5.97%) CMS
2 4 (5.97%) Drupal
2 4 (5.97%) WordPress
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) CICS
4 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) AWS
2 16 (23.88%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
3 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 6 (8.96%) CloudFront
4 6 (8.96%) IaaS
4 6 (8.96%) PaaS
4 6 (8.96%) Route 53
4 6 (8.96%) SaaS
5 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.97%) GitHub
7 3 (4.48%) Azure API Management
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.48%) GCP
8 2 (2.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Internet
1 4 (5.97%) SSL
2 3 (4.48%) HTTP
3 2 (2.99%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) FTP
3 2 (2.99%) S/MIME
3 2 (2.99%) SMTP
3 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.94%) Oracle Database
3 8 (11.94%) Oracle Database 11g
4 7 (10.45%) MySQL
4 7 (10.45%) Redis
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (8.96%) DocumentDB
6 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.48%) SSDT
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.99%) Big Data
8 2 (2.99%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.99%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) GitLab
2 9 (13.43%) Git
2 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.94%) SonarQube
4 6 (8.96%) JIRA
4 6 (8.96%) Snyk
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.99%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.99%) JUnit
6 2 (2.99%) Storybook
6 2 (2.99%) Vite
6 2 (2.99%) webpack
7 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.49%) Maven
7 1 (1.49%) MLflow
General
1 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Banking
4 6 (8.96%) Retail Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Legal
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Aviation
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Software Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) Developer
3 7 (10.45%) C# Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Senior
4 6 (8.96%) Lead
4 6 (8.96%) Tester
5 5 (7.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Tester
6 4 (5.97%) Architect
6 4 (5.97%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.99%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) CSS
1 13 (19.40%) HTML
2 10 (14.93%) RESTful
3 7 (10.45%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.45%) JSON
4 6 (8.96%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.46%) .NET
5 5 (7.46%) Web Services
5 5 (7.46%) YAML
6 4 (5.97%) Ajax
6 4 (5.97%) CodeIgniter
6 4 (5.97%) jQuery
6 4 (5.97%) Kafka
6 4 (5.97%) LAMP
6 4 (5.97%) SOAP
7 3 (4.48%) OAuth
7 3 (4.48%) React
7 3 (4.48%) REST
7 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.96%) Derivative
3 5 (7.46%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (7.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (5.97%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.48%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) PKI
6 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.49%) VSAM
7 1 (1.49%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) DevOps
2 26 (38.81%) CI/CD
3 25 (37.31%) Software Engineering
4 18 (26.87%) Agile
4 18 (26.87%) Unit Testing
5 17 (25.37%) OWASP
6 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.90%) DevSecOps
7 14 (20.90%) Static Application Security Testing
8 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
8 13 (19.40%) TDD
9 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.42%) SDLC
10 10 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (13.43%) Software Testing
12 8 (11.94%) Application Security
12 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
12 8 (11.94%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 8 (11.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) Python
2 18 (26.87%) JavaScript
2 18 (26.87%) PowerShell
2 18 (26.87%) SQL
3 13 (19.40%) Bash
3 13 (19.40%) C#
3 13 (19.40%) Java
4 10 (14.93%) PHP
5 8 (11.94%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.96%) Ruby
7 4 (5.97%) Perl
8 3 (4.48%) Bicep
8 3 (4.48%) C++
8 3 (4.48%) Rust
9 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.49%) COBOL
10 1 (1.49%) JCL
10 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 7 (10.45%) SANS
4 6 (8.96%) CEH
5 5 (7.46%) CCSAS
5 5 (7.46%) CREST Certified
5 5 (7.46%) GIAC
5 5 (7.46%) GPEN
5 5 (7.46%) GWAPT
5 5 (7.46%) OSCP
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) CISSP
8 1 (1.49%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
3 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.94%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Nessus
5 1 (1.49%) Ansible
5 1 (1.49%) Argo
5 1 (1.49%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Veracode
4 5 (7.46%) Coverity
4 5 (7.46%) Zend
5 3 (4.48%) UiPath
6 2 (2.99%) Alibaba
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Qualys
7 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Splunk