Interactive Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.019% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - -
England median daily rate £447 - £688
% change year-on-year - - +19.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Interactive 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 4,683 2,927 4,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.14% 88.94% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 1,772 2,639
10th Percentile £256 £263 £274
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £585
90th Percentile £650 £651 £672
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 147 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.65 £19.13 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £27.50 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +31.67% -24.60%
75th Percentile £62.03 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.85 £53.75
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Interactive Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Interactive Application Security Testing

Interactive 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 Interactive Application Security Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
North West - 1 £518 - 3
Interactive Application Security Testing
England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode