Secure Coding Contracts in London

Secure Code Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding 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 317 351 461
Rank change year-on-year +34 +110 +30
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 36 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.25% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 22
10th Percentile £535 £420 £466
25th Percentile £634 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £644
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.80% +11.96%
75th Percentile £734 £669 £680
90th Percentile £750 £698 £731
England median daily rate £650 £650 £575
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Secure Coding 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%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in London.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in London

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in London

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in London.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in London

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding 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 +10 10 £675 +17.39% 4
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 6 (16.67%) Route 53
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) IaaS
4 5 (13.89%) PaaS
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) FTP
2 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (5.56%) S/MIME
2 2 (5.56%) SMTP
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (16.67%) DocumentDB
2 6 (16.67%) Redis
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) GitLab
2 6 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.89%) Snyk
4 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.56%) Git
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) JUnit
6 1 (2.78%) Storybook
6 1 (2.78%) Vite
6 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Tester
3 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Tester
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Product Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.78%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) JSON
1 7 (19.44%) RESTful
2 6 (16.67%) CSS
2 6 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 6 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) Middleware
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) Redux
4 1 (2.78%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.78%) Swagger
4 1 (2.78%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Derivative
2 6 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (13.89%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (13.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) DevOps
1 14 (38.89%) OWASP
1 14 (38.89%) Static Application Security Testing
2 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
4 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.78%) DevSecOps
5 8 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.22%) Unit Testing
6 7 (19.44%) TDD
6 7 (19.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (16.67%) Application Security
7 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
7 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (16.67%) SDLC
7 6 (16.67%) SOLID
7 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 11 (30.56%) C#
4 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
5 9 (25.00%) Bash
5 9 (25.00%) SQL
6 5 (13.89%) PHP
6 5 (13.89%) Ruby
7 4 (11.11%) Java
8 3 (8.33%) Bicep
8 3 (8.33%) C++
8 3 (8.33%) Perl
8 3 (8.33%) Rust
9 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SANS
3 5 (13.89%) CCSAS
3 5 (13.89%) CEH
3 5 (13.89%) CREST Certified
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 5 (13.89%) GIAC
3 5 (13.89%) GPEN
3 5 (13.89%) GWAPT
3 5 (13.89%) OSCP
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
1 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Veracode
2 5 (13.89%) Coverity
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Alibaba
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk