Secure Coding Contracts in the North of England

Secure Code Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding 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 160 176 206
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 6 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £360 £509 £375
25th Percentile £363 £550 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £624 £550
Median % change year-on-year -40.98% +13.36% -
75th Percentile £484 £650 £563
90th Percentile £554 - £625
England median daily rate £650 £650 £575
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Secure Coding 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%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the North of England

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the North of England

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the North of England

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding 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
North West +21 5 £368 -13.41% 38
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 16
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) CICS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 2 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (16.67%) JCL
3 1 (16.67%) REXX
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef