Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Secure Code Development
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.76% 0.70% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £620 £401 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £403 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.01% - -
75th Percentile £660 £404 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £640 £526 £625
% change year-on-year +21.62% -15.80% +58.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 108 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.12% 75.52% 82.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 100
10th Percentile £170 £220 £262
25th Percentile £241 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -17.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £616
90th Percentile £654 £638 £651
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £22.50 - £27.85
25th Percentile £24.38 - £29.13
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.97%
75th Percentile £73.42 - £34.13
90th Percentile £74.97 - £34.35
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
% change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Southampton

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 (66.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat