Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 179 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.043% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.053% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £441 £580 -
25th Percentile £485 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% - -
75th Percentile £644 £663 -
90th Percentile £723 £670 -
England median daily rate £613 £612 £725
% change year-on-year +0.08% -15.59% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,112 3,806 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.17% 82.60% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 2,269 3,336
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £378 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 251 255
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.83 £23.79
Median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the South East

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the South East

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Thames Valley +16 6 £559 -10.56%
Berkshire - 6 £559 -
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
4 3 (50.00%) Application Security
4 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Security
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CCSP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) PSD2
3 2 (33.33%) GRC
4 1 (16.67%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Kubeflow
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform