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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 338 460
Rank change year-on-year +6 +122 +122
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 35 48 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.29% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.33% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 11
10th Percentile £323 £450 £413
25th Percentile £525 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -14.56%
75th Percentile £700 £811 £688
90th Percentile £763 £836 £713
England median daily rate £619 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -1.00% -10.71% +3.70%

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 12,569 14,514 21,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.15% 88.83% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,424 10,284 15,960
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 207 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.58 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.50 £34.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% -16.61% +14.85%
75th Percentile £49.63 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.16% -1.11% +63.46%

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 August 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 August 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 +6 8 £700 -22.22%
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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 27 (77.14%) AWS
3 18 (51.43%) GCP
4 17 (48.57%) GitHub
5 4 (11.43%) Azure AKS
5 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) FTP
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
1 3 (8.57%) SMTP
1 3 (8.57%) SSL
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 14 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 13 (37.14%) SonarQube
3 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Military
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Security Engineer
2 15 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Application Security Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Product Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) YAML
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) JSON
2 3 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.71%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (2.86%) ADO
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth
4 1 (2.86%) OpenID
4 1 (2.86%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (94.29%) Static Application Security Testing
2 30 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 24 (68.57%) DevSecOps
4 22 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (62.86%) Secure Coding
5 20 (57.14%) Security Testing
6 18 (51.43%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (48.57%) Application Security
7 17 (48.57%) Cloud Security
7 17 (48.57%) Threat Modelling
7 17 (48.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 15 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (42.86%) SDLC
8 15 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 14 (40.00%) OWASP
10 13 (37.14%) Ethical Hacking
11 10 (28.57%) DevOps
12 9 (25.71%) Data Protection
13 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 5 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 15 (42.86%) Bash
3 4 (11.43%) Bicep
3 4 (11.43%) Rust
4 3 (8.57%) C#
4 3 (8.57%) C++
4 3 (8.57%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
4 3 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) CREST Certified
3 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (40.00%) OSCP
5 13 (37.14%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (28.57%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (5.71%) CASP
7 2 (5.71%) CCSP
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.71%) CISSP
7 2 (5.71%) CSSLP
7 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (5.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) NCSC
2 8 (22.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (22.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (8.57%) NIST
4 2 (5.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.86%) FedRAMP
5 1 (2.86%) GDPR
5 1 (2.86%) PMO
5 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Nmap
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.14%) Terraform
4 4 (11.43%) Grafana
5 3 (8.57%) Ansible
6 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.71%) SELinux
7 1 (2.86%) Argo
7 1 (2.86%) CASB
7 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Veracode
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Alibaba
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Rapid7