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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 351 443
Rank change year-on-year +49 +92 +62
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 42 42 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 27
10th Percentile £481 £450 £469
25th Percentile £585 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £680
90th Percentile £739 £745 £759
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +17 10 £675 +17.39% 6
East London - 2 £585 -
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:

Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 22 (52.38%) AWS
3 12 (28.57%) GitHub
4 9 (21.43%) GCP
5 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (11.90%) CloudFront
6 5 (11.90%) Route 53
7 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
1 4 (9.52%) SSL
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) FTP
2 2 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) S/MIME
2 2 (4.76%) SMTP
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (11.90%) DocumentDB
2 5 (11.90%) Redis
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) SonarQube
2 11 (26.19%) GitLab
3 9 (21.43%) Burp Suite
3 9 (21.43%) Metasploit
4 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (9.52%) Snyk
6 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.38%) Git
7 1 (2.38%) Postman
7 1 (2.38%) Storybook
7 1 (2.38%) Vite
7 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Security Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Development Manager
8 1 (2.38%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Product Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Security Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) JSON
2 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
2 5 (11.90%) RESTful
3 4 (9.52%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.76%) React
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) ADO
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) Middleware
5 1 (2.38%) Redux
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (2.38%) Swagger
5 1 (2.38%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.90%) Derivative
2 5 (11.90%) PKI
3 3 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) AS400
5 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.38%) iSeries
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) DevSecOps
2 21 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 17 (40.48%) DevOps
4 17 (40.48%) OWASP
5 16 (38.10%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 16 (38.10%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (35.71%) SDLC
7 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 12 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
8 11 (26.19%) Cloud Security
8 11 (26.19%) Penetration Testing
9 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (23.81%) Ethical Hacking
10 9 (21.43%) Agile
10 9 (21.43%) Security Testing
11 8 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 6 (14.29%) Application Security
12 6 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 18 (42.86%) Bash
3 13 (30.95%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.81%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (7.14%) Bicep
7 3 (7.14%) C++
7 3 (7.14%) Java
7 3 (7.14%) Kotlin
7 3 (7.14%) Perl
7 3 (7.14%) Rust
8 1 (2.38%) COBOL
8 1 (2.38%) RPG
8 1 (2.38%) SQL
8 1 (2.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) CREST Certified
3 9 (21.43%) OSCP
4 8 (19.05%) Tigerscheme
5 6 (14.29%) CHECK Team Member
5 6 (14.29%) SANS
6 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.38%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) NCSC
2 5 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 4 (9.52%) NIST
4 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Nmap
2 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Terraform
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) HP Fortify
4 2 (4.76%) Nessus
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Veracode
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Coverity
4 2 (4.76%) Alibaba
4 2 (4.76%) Qualys
5 1 (2.38%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.38%) FNZ
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.38%) UiPath