Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in the South West

Secure Code Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 119 142
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 13 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.57% 0.090% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.10% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile - £706 £588
25th Percentile £513 £716 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +22.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £766 £688
90th Percentile £673 £779 £690
England median daily rate £575 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 1,912 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.65% 86.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,168 1,799
10th Percentile £261 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £422 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 133 272
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.46 £20.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the South West

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the South West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the South West

Secure Coding
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Secure Coding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Wiltshire -11 5 £569 -18.75% 5
Devon - 5 £550 - 3
Somerset - 2 - - 3
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Mocha
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Digital Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (15.38%) React Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 3 (23.08%) Express.js
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 2 (15.38%) JDBC
3 2 (15.38%) React
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) JWT
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) ModSecurity
4 1 (7.69%) NestJS
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Clean Code
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Runbook
7 2 (15.38%) SDLC
7 2 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.69%) JSP 440
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk