Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 153 198
Rank change year-on-year +20 +45 -43
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.036% 0.23% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.26% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +74.19%
75th Percentile - £738 £688
90th Percentile - £756 -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +15.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Static Application Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,266 3,021 4,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 2,106 3,283
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 118 150
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £9.98
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.13 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in the Midlands

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in the Midlands

Static Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +13 1 £750 +3.45% 1
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk