Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in the North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 153 175
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.074% 0.063% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.070% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £593 £511 £426
25th Percentile £619 £528 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £563 £427
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +31.73% -
75th Percentile £706 £603 £427
90th Percentile £733 £624 £428
England median daily rate £650 £625 £663
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.70% +12.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,345 2,862 3,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,036 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 141 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £22.41 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +71.43% +15.93%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the North West

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Manchester - 2 £663 - 1
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk