Secure Coding Contracts in the Thames Valley

Secure Code Development
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 147 167
Rank change year-on-year +27 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 20 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 3
10th Percentile £580 £536 £442
25th Percentile £588 £551 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £568 £535
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% +6.07% +52.86%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £577
90th Percentile - - £602
South East median daily rate £675 £568 £535
% change year-on-year +18.94% +6.07% +52.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Secure Coding is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the Thames Valley

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the Thames Valley

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the Thames Valley

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Berkshire +10 18 £675 +17.39% 2
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £521 -6.92% 2
Secure Coding
South East

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) Oracle Database
1 18 (90.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 18 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
2 15 (75.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Database Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Debian
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Clean Code
2 18 (90.00%) Data Migration
2 18 (90.00%) Migration
2 18 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (90.00%) Unit Testing
3 17 (85.00%) Architectural Design
3 17 (85.00%) DevOps
3 17 (85.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (10.00%) Statistics
5 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) PL/SQL
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy