Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 86 98
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.69% 0.093% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £600 - £483
25th Percentile £603 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £638 - £619
90th Percentile £638 - £638
North West median daily rate £623 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -17.00% +36.36% -2.22%

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 1,046 967 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.79% 89.70% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 581 978
10th Percentile £303 £294 £296
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Static Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Static Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Snyk
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevSecOps
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) SDLC
4 4 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (12.50%) Application Security
7 1 (12.50%) Coaching
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (12.50%) Disruptive Innovation
7 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Go
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Veracode
2 3 (37.50%) Checkmarx
3 1 (12.50%) VMware