Veracode Contract Job Trends in the North West

Veracode
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Veracode products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Veracode over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Veracode, Inc.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Veracode 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.32% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
England median daily rate £663 £570 £600
% change year-on-year +16.23% -5.00% -3.03%

All Vendors
North West

Veracode falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,278 1,014 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.30% 47.01% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 562 804
10th Percentile £250 £300 £234
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 50 85
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.60 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +66.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.81 £52.60
England median hourly rate £23.69 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.58% -31.43% +73.88%

Veracode
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Veracode relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Veracode job vacancy trend in the North West

Veracode
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Veracode.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Veracode

Veracode
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Veracode in the North West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Veracode in the North West

Veracode
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 Veracode within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Manchester - 4 £625 -
Cheshire - 4 £434 -
Veracode
England

Veracode
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
1 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Bitbucket
1 7 (87.50%) SonarQube
2 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Snyk
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (25.00%) Maven
4 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Jest
1 2 (25.00%) JPA
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Redux
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) Secure Coding
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Application Security
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
7 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (12.50%) Coaching
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft