Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic 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 53 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £589 - -
25th Percentile £684 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £425
75th Percentile £747 - £450
90th Percentile £750 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 - £425

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (71.43%) nginx
1 5 (71.43%) Traefik
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Fargate
1 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (28.57%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) cloud-init
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) CentOS
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Identity Management
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Secrets Management
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Go
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Consul
1 6 (85.71%) Grafana
1 6 (85.71%) Istio
1 6 (85.71%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) linkerd
1 6 (85.71%) Packer
1 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
1 6 (85.71%) Rancher
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
1 6 (85.71%) ZABBIX
2 5 (71.43%) HAProxy
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Okta
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk
2 5 (71.43%) Apple
2 5 (71.43%) ESET
3 1 (14.29%) VMware