Defensive Programming Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defensive Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Defensive Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defensive Programming over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defensive Programming 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Defensive Programming 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Defensive Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defensive Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defensive Programming in the UK excluding London

Defensive Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defensive Programming in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Defensive Programming in the UK excluding London

Defensive Programming
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defensive Programming within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands - 5 £650 -
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Defensive Programming
UK

Defensive Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Application Security
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Data Security
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 5 (100.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Docker