Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.76% 0.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £440 £457 -
25th Percentile £450 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% - -
75th Percentile £514 £468 -
90th Percentile £537 £468 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £466 -
% change year-on-year +10.37% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Static 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,048 399 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 88.89% 94.33% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 256 243
10th Percentile £363 £267 £360
25th Percentile £425 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £558 £573 £578
90th Percentile £674 £638 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 20
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £13.52 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.59 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £15.42
90th Percentile £24.08 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.23
% change year-on-year +7.39% +60.54% +24.46%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Static Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in South Yorkshire

Static Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Static Application Security Testing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Sheffield -48 9 £500 +7.70% 1
Static Application Security Testing
Yorkshire

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
1 7 (77.78%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Maven
2 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (88.89%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
General
1 7 (77.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) SLSA
1 8 (88.89%) YAML
2 5 (55.56%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) gRPC
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) DevSecOps
2 8 (88.89%) SBOM
3 7 (77.78%) Attestation
3 7 (77.78%) GitOps
3 7 (77.78%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (77.78%) Release Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Groovy
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 20022
1 1 (11.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Sonatype