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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 446 581
Rank change year-on-year +51 +135 +21
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 72 87 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 44
10th Percentile £347 £451 £388
25th Percentile £411 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £586
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.87% +1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £680
90th Percentile £738 £706 £731
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 22,085 31,523 43,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.44% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,441 20,648 30,851
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 2,245 1,554
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.89 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.63 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

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 15 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 15 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 +44 38 £675 +3.85% 103
South East +46 15 £650 -3.70% 20
North of England +13 10 £358 -42.44% 32
North West +15 9 £358 -22.59% 21
East Midlands - 4 £326 - 10
Midlands - 4 £326 - 19
South West +31 2 £425 -34.62% 22
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 10
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) Apache
2 4 (5.56%) CMS
2 4 (5.56%) Drupal
2 4 (5.56%) WordPress
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.39%) CICS
4 1 (1.39%) Mule
4 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.28%) AWS
2 21 (29.17%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.33%) GitHub
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.94%) CloudFront
6 5 (6.94%) Route 53
6 5 (6.94%) Serverless
7 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.56%) IaaS
7 4 (5.56%) PaaS
7 4 (5.56%) SaaS
8 3 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) Network Security
2 4 (5.56%) Internet
2 4 (5.56%) SSL
3 3 (4.17%) HTTP
4 2 (2.78%) DNS
4 2 (2.78%) FTP
4 2 (2.78%) S/MIME
4 2 (2.78%) SMTP
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 7 (9.72%) MySQL
5 6 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 6 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (8.33%) Redis
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (6.94%) DocumentDB
6 5 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.17%) SSDT
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.78%) Big Data
9 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.78%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) GitLab
2 12 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (12.50%) Git
5 6 (8.33%) JIRA
5 6 (8.33%) Snyk
6 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.78%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.78%) JUnit
7 2 (2.78%) Storybook
7 2 (2.78%) Vite
7 2 (2.78%) webpack
8 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.39%) Maven
8 1 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Finance
3 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.94%) Retail Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Legal
7 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Aviation
8 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Developer
2 13 (18.06%) Software Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) C# Developer
3 7 (9.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Lead
4 6 (8.33%) Senior
5 5 (6.94%) Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) CSS
1 13 (18.06%) HTML
2 10 (13.89%) RESTful
3 8 (11.11%) JSON
4 7 (9.72%) .NET
4 7 (9.72%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.33%) Kafka
6 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
6 5 (6.94%) Web Services
6 5 (6.94%) YAML
7 4 (5.56%) Ajax
7 4 (5.56%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (5.56%) jQuery
7 4 (5.56%) LAMP
7 4 (5.56%) React
7 4 (5.56%) REST
7 4 (5.56%) SOAP
7 4 (5.56%) Spring
7 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.94%) Derivative
3 4 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 4 (5.56%) PKI
4 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Android
5 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) DevOps
2 28 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 27 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 22 (30.56%) Agile
5 19 (26.39%) OWASP
6 17 (23.61%) DevSecOps
6 17 (23.61%) Unit Testing
7 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.44%) SDLC
7 14 (19.44%) Static Application Security Testing
8 13 (18.06%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.06%) TDD
9 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.50%) Scrum
12 9 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 8 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 8 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
13 8 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Python
2 19 (26.39%) PowerShell
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (23.61%) SQL
5 15 (20.83%) Java
6 14 (19.44%) Bash
7 13 (18.06%) C#
8 9 (12.50%) PHP
9 6 (8.33%) PL/SQL
10 4 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (5.56%) Ruby
11 3 (4.17%) Bicep
11 3 (4.17%) C++
11 3 (4.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (4.17%) Perl
11 3 (4.17%) Rust
12 1 (1.39%) COBOL
12 1 (1.39%) REXX
12 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) SANS
4 5 (6.94%) CEH
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) CCSAS
5 4 (5.56%) CREST Certified
5 4 (5.56%) GIAC
5 4 (5.56%) GPEN
5 4 (5.56%) GWAPT
5 4 (5.56%) OSCP
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.39%) CISM
8 1 (1.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) GDPR
1 4 (5.56%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.78%) WCAG
4 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.89%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Nessus
4 3 (4.17%) HP Fortify
4 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.78%) Ansible
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.39%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Oracle
3 7 (9.72%) Veracode
4 5 (6.94%) Coverity
4 5 (6.94%) Zend
5 3 (4.17%) Qualys
5 3 (4.17%) UiPath
6 2 (2.78%) Alibaba
6 2 (2.78%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.39%) Google
7 1 (1.39%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.39%) Solace
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk