Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the North of England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 177 163 188
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +70
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.047% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.057% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £461 £593 -
25th Percentile £475 £619 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +10.42% +40.68%
75th Percentile £594 £706 £650
90th Percentile £613 £733 -
England median daily rate £638 £612 £700
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,564 3,526 4,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.99% 83.67% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,282 2,096 3,040
10th Percentile £268 £313 £288
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 226 206
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.87 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.63 £28.50 £28.49
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +0.04% +42.45%
75th Percentile £43.74 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.88 £56.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

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

Static Application Security Testing
DemandTrendContract 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 Static Application Security Testing within the North of England 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
Yorkshire - 3 £466 - 1
North West -8 2 £613 -7.55% 2
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static 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 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (33.33%) CloudBees
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Packer
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware