Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.55% 0.84% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £408 £441 -
25th Percentile £456 £485 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £559 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £619 £644 -
90th Percentile £668 £723 -
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £559 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 883 544 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 81.61% 91.74% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 345 519
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £455 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £650
90th Percentile £741 £688 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £537 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +4.78% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 18 32
10th Percentile £54.40 - £15.13
25th Percentile £73.65 £14.75 £55.41
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +317.18% -66.92% -5.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £75.40
90th Percentile £104.50 £59.13 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +2.67%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Reading

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 6 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Secrets Management
2 5 (83.33%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) SOAR
3 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Bicep
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (66.67%) CEH
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 4 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (66.67%) NCSC
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk