Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the North East

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £638 £612 £700
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 231 209 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.77% 85.66% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 101 177
10th Percentile £210 £310 £316
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £714
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.38 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.49 £18.06 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +77.62% +48.57%
75th Percentile £20.63 £49.05 £33.75
90th Percentile £47.34 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

Static Application Security Testing
DemandTrendContract 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 Static Application Security Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 1 £550 - 1
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat