Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in the North of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 183 216
Rank change year-on-year +29 +33 +14
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 12 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.042% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.049% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £465 £593 £420
25th Percentile £547 £619 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £663 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +32.50% +17.10%
75th Percentile £750 £706 £569
90th Percentile - £733 £610
England median daily rate £725 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -5.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North of England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire - 9 £713 - 4
North East - 2 £750 -
North West +16 1 £750 +13.21% 2
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (58.33%) nginx
1 7 (58.33%) Traefik
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Fargate
1 9 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 9 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
1 9 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (75.00%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 8 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (75.00%) Kafka
1 9 (75.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) CentOS
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (75.00%) Identity Management
3 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (75.00%) Observability
3 9 (75.00%) Secrets Management
4 7 (58.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) Bash
2 9 (75.00%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Grafana
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
1 11 (91.67%) Prometheus
2 9 (75.00%) Consul
2 9 (75.00%) Istio
2 9 (75.00%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (75.00%) linkerd
2 9 (75.00%) Packer
2 9 (75.00%) Rancher
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) ZABBIX
3 7 (58.33%) HAProxy
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Okta
1 9 (75.00%) Splunk
2 7 (58.33%) Apple
2 7 (58.33%) ESET
3 2 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) VMware