Static Application Security Testing Contracts in London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 330 435
Rank change year-on-year +9 +105 +125
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 29 67 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.43% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 54 30
10th Percentile £356 £524 £459
25th Percentile £424 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £741 £700 £729
90th Percentile £763 £823 £835
England median daily rate £638 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Static 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 11,434 15,528 23,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.71% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,744 11,124 17,152
10th Percentile £350 £345 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £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 173 311 269
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -28.62% +5.41%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.66 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £82.30
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static 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 Static Application Security Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 +5 4 £725 -7.94% 2
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static 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 2 (6.90%) nginx
1 2 (6.90%) Traefik
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (24.14%) Azure AKS
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) FTP
2 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 3 (10.34%) SMTP
2 3 (10.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) GitLab
2 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 6 (20.69%) SonarQube
4 5 (17.24%) Snyk
5 2 (6.90%) Git
6 1 (3.45%) AppScan
6 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Military
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Product Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Security Product Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) JSON
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (10.34%) YAML
4 2 (6.90%) cloud-init
4 2 (6.90%) Kafka
4 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (3.45%) FpML
5 1 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (3.45%) Rendezvous
5 1 (3.45%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (3.45%) STL
5 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) CentOS
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) DevSecOps
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 14 (48.28%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 14 (48.28%) Secure Coding
4 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 9 (31.03%) Application Security
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (27.59%) OWASP
7 7 (24.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
9 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
9 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 5 (17.24%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
10 4 (13.79%) SIEM
10 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (10.34%) Static Code Analysis
11 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
3 10 (34.48%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) Bicep
4 4 (13.79%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) C++
5 3 (10.34%) Go
5 3 (10.34%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (10.34%) Perl
6 2 (6.90%) Java
6 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.90%) Rust
7 1 (3.45%) Groovy
7 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SANS
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) FedRAMP
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Terraform
4 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Consul
5 2 (6.90%) HAProxy
5 2 (6.90%) Istio
5 2 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (6.90%) linkerd
5 2 (6.90%) Packer
5 2 (6.90%) Rancher
5 2 (6.90%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) CASB
6 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Veracode
2 5 (17.24%) Coverity
2 5 (17.24%) Qualys
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Alibaba
5 2 (6.90%) Apple
5 2 (6.90%) ESET
5 2 (6.90%) IBM
5 2 (6.90%) Okta
6 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) TIBCO