Secure Coding Contracts in the Thames Valley

Secure Code Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 105 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +46
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 6 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £517 £646 £525
25th Percentile £523 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +8.00% +8.93%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £675
90th Percentile £648 - £688
South East median daily rate £530 £675 £610
% change year-on-year -21.48% +10.66% +3.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,200 2,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.20% 84.52% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,203 1,816
10th Percentile £300 £250 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 153 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £21.35
Median hourly rate £24.91 £49.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -1.01% +191.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £82.10 £86.73 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £23.25 £54.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.43% +9.24% +118.91%

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 17 July 2025.

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 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
Berkshire +19 5 £588 -12.96% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £535 -
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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (50.00%) JAX
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) R
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) UiPath
2 1 (16.67%) VMware