Static Application Security Testing Contracts in Manchester

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 78 94 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% - -
North West median daily rate £750 £663 £563
% change year-on-year +13.21% +17.78% +31.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in Manchester

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in Manchester

Static Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk