Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £641 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £614 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 113 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.25% 96.58% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 102 103
10th Percentile £340 £325 £365
25th Percentile £393 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £583 £499 £582
90th Percentile £653 £600 £624
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £32.95 £21.84
% change year-on-year -29.67% +50.87% -4.13%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in Knutsford over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in Knutsford

Static 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 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
3 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (25.00%) Snyk
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) DevSecOps
3 6 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 4 (50.00%) GitOps
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 4 (50.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (37.50%) API Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Application Security
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) OWASP
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (12.50%) SDLC
7 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Argo
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Istio
3 2 (25.00%) linkerd
4 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Veracode
3 2 (25.00%) Checkmarx