Static Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Static 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 467 575 722
Rank change year-on-year +108 +147 -128
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 76 73 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.14% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 48
10th Percentile £550 £473 £463
25th Percentile £600 £500 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £681 £738 £706
90th Percentile £795 £807 £739
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Static 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% -

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static 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 Static 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 +116 64 £650 +4.00% 13
South West +16 6 £550 -12.00% 2
North of England +27 2 £663 +32.50% 2
North West +24 2 £663 +17.78% 2
South East +19 2 £650 -13.33% 2
Midlands +21 1 £750 +3.45% 1
West Midlands +21 1 £750 +3.45% 1
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static 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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) AWS
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
4 3 (3.95%) Miro
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.63%) GitHub
5 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.63%) PaaS
5 2 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.32%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.32%) Route 53
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.21%) GitLab
3 4 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Snyk
5 2 (2.63%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 40 (52.63%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Financial Institution
3 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.95%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (40.79%) Project Manager
2 28 (36.84%) Security Manager
2 28 (36.84%) Security Project Manager
3 16 (21.05%) Security Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 12 (15.79%) IT Manager
4 12 (15.79%) IT Project Manager
4 12 (15.79%) IT Security Manager
4 12 (15.79%) IT Security Project Manager
4 12 (15.79%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 10 (13.16%) CISSP Manager
5 10 (13.16%) Contracts Manager
5 10 (13.16%) IT Services Manager
5 10 (13.16%) Service Security Manager
6 8 (10.53%) Senior
7 7 (9.21%) Consultant
8 6 (7.89%) Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Security Consultant
8 6 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
1 3 (3.95%) Java EE
1 3 (3.95%) REST
1 3 (3.95%) SOAP
1 3 (3.95%) Spring
1 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (1.32%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.32%) JSON
3 1 (1.32%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.21%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.95%) PMI
3 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
1 5 (6.58%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) zOS
3 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (82.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 33 (43.42%) Application Security
3 32 (42.11%) Security Testing
4 31 (40.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 30 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (30.26%) Project Management
7 20 (26.32%) CI/CD
7 20 (26.32%) DevOps
8 18 (23.68%) Project Delivery
9 15 (19.74%) DevSecOps
9 15 (19.74%) Threat Modelling
10 12 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (15.79%) Test Automation
11 11 (14.47%) SDLC
12 10 (13.16%) Information Security
12 10 (13.16%) Interactive Application Security Testing
13 9 (11.84%) Security Operations
13 9 (11.84%) SIEM
14 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.58%) Java
2 4 (5.26%) Bash
2 4 (5.26%) C#
2 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.95%) Python
4 2 (2.63%) Bicep
4 2 (2.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) CISM
1 16 (21.05%) CISSP
2 14 (18.42%) CISA
3 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.63%) CRISC
6 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CCNP
6 1 (1.32%) CEH
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Degree
6 1 (1.32%) GCIA
6 1 (1.32%) GCIH
6 1 (1.32%) GIAC
6 1 (1.32%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (7.89%) NIST
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
2 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 31000
3 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
1 5 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Terraform
2 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.32%) Nessus
5 1 (1.32%) Nmap
5 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) VMware
3 3 (3.95%) Qualys
3 3 (3.95%) Splunk
4 2 (2.63%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.63%) F5
4 2 (2.63%) Veracode
5 1 (1.32%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.32%) Okta
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro