Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Secure Code Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 305 342
Rank change year-on-year -27 +37 +123
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 76 58 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.44% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 42 54
10th Percentile £409 £356 £529
25th Percentile £477 £469 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £631
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +1.39% +16.90%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £688
90th Percentile £661 £688 £706
UK median daily rate £554 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -13.14% +2.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,485 13,119 17,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.27% 86.67% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,460 7,700 11,333
10th Percentile £219 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,762 793 1,223
10th Percentile £14.26 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%
75th Percentile £48.41 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Secure Coding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
North of England -22 25 £588 +6.82% 38
South East -13 20 £600 -7.69% 65
Yorkshire -31 14 £482 - 13
Scotland +8 13 £513 +39.55% 11
South West +1 11 £581 -21.19% 35
North West -18 9 £600 +9.09% 21
Midlands -33 8 £402 +12.92% 30
East Midlands -18 4 £402 +12.92% 15
West Midlands - 4 £529 - 13
North East -10 2 £600 - 4
East of England - 1 £850 - 29
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) IIS
3 1 (1.32%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.32%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.00%) AWS
2 31 (40.79%) Azure
3 28 (36.84%) GitHub
4 20 (26.32%) GCP
4 20 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 12 (15.79%) Serverless
6 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.95%) PaaS
10 2 (2.63%) Apigee
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.32%) SSL
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.84%) Redis
3 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.58%) MySQL
6 4 (5.26%) Aerospike
6 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Big Data
8 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.32%) HBase
8 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Jenkins
2 16 (21.05%) Git
3 14 (18.42%) GitLab
4 9 (11.84%) SonarQube
5 7 (9.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.89%) Snyk
7 5 (6.58%) JUnit
8 4 (5.26%) JIRA
8 4 (5.26%) Mocha
9 3 (3.95%) Storybook
10 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.63%) git-flow
11 1 (1.32%) Android Studio
11 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.32%) Gradle
11 1 (1.32%) Maven
11 1 (1.32%) Mockito
11 1 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 26 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Finance
3 20 (26.32%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Electronics
6 3 (3.95%) Games
6 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.95%) Marketing
6 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.63%) Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.32%) Aviation
8 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.32%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Software Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Security Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.95%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Lead
9 3 (3.95%) React Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Software Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) Node.js
2 16 (21.05%) React
2 16 (21.05%) RESTful
3 13 (17.11%) OAuth
4 11 (14.47%) REST
5 10 (13.16%) Kafka
6 9 (11.84%) .NET
7 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 8 (10.53%) OAuth2
7 8 (10.53%) Spring
7 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
8 7 (9.21%) Jest
8 7 (9.21%) JWT
9 6 (7.89%) PyTorch
9 6 (7.89%) TensorFlow
10 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.26%) Flask
10 4 (5.26%) HTML
10 4 (5.26%) LangChain
10 4 (5.26%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.47%) Security Posture
3 10 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.63%) PKI
8 2 (2.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Android
1 3 (3.95%) Windows
1 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (71.05%) CI/CD
2 38 (50.00%) DevOps
3 36 (47.37%) Agile
4 26 (34.21%) Test Automation
5 25 (32.89%) Microservices
6 23 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (30.26%) Software Engineering
7 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
8 21 (27.63%) SDLC
9 20 (26.32%) DevSecOps
10 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (22.37%) Static Application Security Testing
12 16 (21.05%) Clean Code
13 14 (18.42%) Threat Modelling
14 13 (17.11%) AI
14 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
14 13 (17.11%) Data Protection
15 12 (15.79%) Configuration Management
15 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
15 12 (15.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) Java
2 20 (26.32%) Python
3 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.37%) TypeScript
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 9 (11.84%) C#
6 7 (9.21%) Bash
7 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.95%) Bicep
8 3 (3.95%) C
8 3 (3.95%) C++
8 3 (3.95%) R
9 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.84%) CISSP
4 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (6.58%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.58%) CCSP
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.63%) CISM
7 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.63%) Degree
7 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.32%) CEH
8 1 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.32%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.32%) OSCP
8 1 (1.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (13.16%) NIST
3 9 (11.84%) GDPR
3 9 (11.84%) QA
4 6 (7.89%) PCI DSS
5 5 (6.58%) PSD2
6 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (3.95%) EU AI Act
6 3 (3.95%) NCSC
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.32%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.32%) SLA
7 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (43.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (51.32%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.68%) Terraform
3 13 (17.11%) Grafana
4 10 (13.16%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.53%) Ansible
6 3 (3.95%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.32%) Istio
7 1 (1.32%) Kibana
7 1 (1.32%) logstash
7 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.32%) Puppet
7 1 (1.32%) Rsyslog
7 1 (1.32%) SCOM
7 1 (1.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) SAP
2 6 (7.89%) Checkmarx
2 6 (7.89%) Veracode
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.26%) Databricks
4 4 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (3.95%) Splunk
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) Apple
7 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.32%) Clearswift
7 1 (1.32%) Coverity
7 1 (1.32%) Kronos
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Thales
7 1 (1.32%) Workday