Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Dynamic 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 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £651 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Dynamic 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 254 104 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.21% 97.20% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 91 90
10th Percentile £320 £341 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £378 £545
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -30.64% +9.00%
75th Percentile £539 £498 £586
90th Percentile £631 £600 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
% change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Knutsford over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Knutsford

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode