Static Application Security Testing Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £550 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 151 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.88% 90.96% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 79 121
10th Percentile £200 £325 £350
25th Percentile £405 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £570 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.50 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £17.81 £18.19
Median hourly rate £18.28 £21.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +7.59% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.60 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -62.54% +77.62% +48.57%

Static Application Security Testing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £550 -
Static Application Security Testing
North East

Static Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat