Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in the North East

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic 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 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
England median daily rate £725 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -5.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Dynamic 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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £750 -
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Rancher
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) ESET
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk