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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 168 204
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 +48
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.048% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.057% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £459 £593 £415
25th Percentile £464 £619 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £663 £513
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +29.27% +20.16%
75th Percentile £533 £706 £600
90th Percentile £573 £733 £630
England median daily rate £619 £612 £700
% change year-on-year +1.10% -12.57% +3.70%

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 3,518 3,479 4,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.88% 84.05% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,234 2,116 3,185
10th Percentile £268 £300 £295
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -0.20% +0.20%
75th Percentile £555 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 249 210
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.00 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +46.50%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £45.67
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £56.51
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 3 £466 - 3
North West +1 1 £600 -9.43% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) CloudBees
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) VMware