Secure Coding Contracts in the South East

Secure Code Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 186 200
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 +56
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 12 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile £439 £558 £533
25th Percentile £486 £652 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 £610
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +10.66% +3.83%
75th Percentile £572 £688 £675
90th Percentile £634 - £685
England median daily rate £576 £645 £600
% change year-on-year -10.66% +7.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Secure Coding 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 3,060 4,560 5,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.03% 82.74% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,681 3,534
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 406 242
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.35 £22.02
Median hourly rate £23.25 £54.62 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.43% +9.24% +118.91%
75th Percentile £53.56 £70.00 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.98
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 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 £535 -20.74% 3
Hampshire +34 5 - - 3
Berkshire +19 5 £588 -12.96% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £535 -
Surrey - 1 £415 -
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) CMS
1 4 (33.33%) Confluence
1 4 (33.33%) Drupal
1 4 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) MySQL
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) Ajax
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
2 4 (33.33%) LAMP
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) Google JAX
3 3 (25.00%) JAX
3 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (8.33%) OAuth
5 1 (8.33%) WinForms
5 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Code
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Debian
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) MVC
4 4 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) OOP
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) C
4 3 (25.00%) C++
4 3 (25.00%) R
5 2 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Rsyslog
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Zend
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) UiPath
4 1 (8.33%) VMware