Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 335 335 460
Rank change year-on-year 0 +125 +99
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 18 56 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.31% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 23
10th Percentile £328 £585 £435
25th Percentile £508 £638 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -10.17%
75th Percentile £744 £675 £738
90th Percentile £763 £823 £835
England median daily rate £725 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -5.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the London 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
Central London +9 6 £725 -19.44%
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (27.78%) nginx
1 5 (27.78%) Traefik
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 5 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
1 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 3 (16.67%) FTP
2 3 (16.67%) HTTP
2 3 (16.67%) SMTP
2 3 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Product Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) cloud-init
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) Keycloak
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (16.67%) YAML
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (5.56%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) PKI
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) CentOS
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Static Application Security Testing
2 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (50.00%) DevOps
5 8 (44.44%) Cloud Security
5 8 (44.44%) Observability
5 8 (44.44%) Secure Coding
6 7 (38.89%) Agile
6 7 (38.89%) DevSecOps
7 6 (33.33%) Identity Management
8 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (27.78%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (27.78%) Secrets Management
9 4 (22.22%) Microservices
9 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
9 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (16.67%) Dynamic Code Analysis
10 3 (16.67%) SDLC
10 3 (16.67%) SIEM
10 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) Go
4 4 (22.22%) Bicep
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (16.67%) Rust
6 2 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) FedRAMP
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Grafana
3 7 (38.89%) Terraform
4 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (27.78%) Consul
5 5 (27.78%) HAProxy
5 5 (27.78%) Istio
5 5 (27.78%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (27.78%) linkerd
5 5 (27.78%) Packer
5 5 (27.78%) Rancher
5 5 (27.78%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.56%) Ansible
6 1 (5.56%) Argo
6 1 (5.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Apple
2 5 (27.78%) ESET
2 5 (27.78%) Okta
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Alibaba
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.56%) Veracode