Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 92 74 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.40% 0.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £479 £457 -
25th Percentile £487 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £464 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £550 £468 -
90th Percentile £565 £468 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £512 £464 -
% change year-on-year +10.29% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 852 553 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.61% 94.85% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 363 189
10th Percentile £363 £291 £381
25th Percentile £432 £370 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £466 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -10.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £594
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £463 £520
% change year-on-year +8.22% -11.06% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £14.77 £15.88
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% -13.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
% change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Tricentis qTest
1 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (25.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) TruffleHog
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (25.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Application Security
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) IIBA
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CSSLP
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GRC
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (25.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx