Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £438 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

Dynamic 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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 102 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.88% 97.14% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 85 69
10th Percentile £312 £307 £292
25th Percentile £357 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £401 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -16.74% +13.18%
75th Percentile £473 £525 £525
90th Percentile £534 £624 £541
Northamptonshire median daily rate £410 £420 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% -11.58% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +205.56%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Northampton

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk