Static Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing 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 435 466 580
Rank change year-on-year +31 +114 +141
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 50 76 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 49
10th Percentile £370 £550 £473
25th Percentile £440 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £738
90th Percentile £763 £795 £807
UK median daily rate £665 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +2.31% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Static 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 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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +5 31 £700 +7.69% 34
North of England +29 12 £725 +9.43% 12
Yorkshire - 9 £713 - 6
Midlands +23 2 £775 +3.33% 4
West Midlands +15 2 £775 +3.33% 4
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +45 1 £650 - 12
North West +16 1 £750 +13.21% 6
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 12 (24.00%) nginx
1 12 (24.00%) Traefik
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) AWS
3 15 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (28.00%) AWS Fargate
4 14 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 14 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (26.00%) Azure AKS
6 12 (24.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.00%) GitHub
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.00%) GCP
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
1 17 (34.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (18.00%) Network Security
3 3 (6.00%) FTP
3 3 (6.00%) HTTP
3 3 (6.00%) SMTP
3 3 (6.00%) SSL
4 2 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.00%) Power BI
3 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (46.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (44.00%) GitLab
3 6 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.00%) Snyk
5 3 (6.00%) Git
6 2 (4.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.00%) AppScan
7 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Military
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Senior
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (18.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Consultant
8 1 (2.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) cloud-init
1 14 (28.00%) Kafka
1 14 (28.00%) Keycloak
2 8 (16.00%) JSON
3 5 (10.00%) .NET
4 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.00%) YAML
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (2.00%) FpML
5 1 (2.00%) Middleware
5 1 (2.00%) Rendezvous
5 1 (2.00%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (2.00%) STL
5 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) PKI
2 10 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) Linux
1 16 (32.00%) Unix
2 14 (28.00%) CentOS
2 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows
4 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 30 (60.00%) DevOps
3 27 (54.00%) CI/CD
4 26 (52.00%) DevSecOps
5 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (40.00%) Cloud Security
7 17 (34.00%) Identity Management
7 17 (34.00%) Observability
8 15 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (28.00%) Secrets Management
9 14 (28.00%) Secure Coding
10 13 (26.00%) Agile
10 13 (26.00%) Application Security
11 12 (24.00%) Mobile Device Management
12 9 (18.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 8 (16.00%) OWASP
14 7 (14.00%) SDLC
14 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
15 6 (12.00%) SIEM
16 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 22 (44.00%) Bash
3 14 (28.00%) Go
4 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 4 (8.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.00%) C++
6 3 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (6.00%) Perl
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) Rust
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) AWS Certification
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) SANS
4 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.00%) CCSP
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.00%) FedRAMP
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (40.00%) Grafana
3 17 (34.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (32.00%) Terraform
5 14 (28.00%) Consul
5 14 (28.00%) Istio
5 14 (28.00%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (28.00%) linkerd
5 14 (28.00%) Packer
5 14 (28.00%) Rancher
5 14 (28.00%) ZABBIX
6 12 (24.00%) HAProxy
7 3 (6.00%) CASB
8 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (4.00%) Ansible
9 1 (2.00%) Argo
9 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Splunk
2 14 (28.00%) Okta
3 12 (24.00%) Apple
3 12 (24.00%) ESET
4 9 (18.00%) Qualys
5 7 (14.00%) Veracode
6 5 (10.00%) Coverity
6 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.00%) Google
7 3 (6.00%) Oracle
8 2 (4.00%) Alibaba
8 2 (4.00%) IBM
8 2 (4.00%) TOWER Software
9 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
9 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
9 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (2.00%) TIBCO
9 1 (2.00%) VMware