Secure Coding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secure Code Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 348 414
Rank change year-on-year +37 +66 +51
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 37 47 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 27
10th Percentile £326 £456 £375
25th Percentile £357 £622 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +18.18% +5.14%
75th Percentile £647 £688 £594
90th Percentile £669 £706 £673
UK median daily rate £571 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -12.12% +13.04% -

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 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

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 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

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 17 May 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
South East +46 15 £650 -3.70% 25
North West +23 9 £358 -22.59% 23
North of England +14 9 £358 -42.44% 42
Scotland +13 8 £450 -27.51% 28
East Midlands - 4 £326 - 15
Midlands - 4 £326 - 31
South West +30 2 £425 -34.62% 31
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Apache
1 4 (10.81%) CMS
1 4 (10.81%) Confluence
1 4 (10.81%) Drupal
1 4 (10.81%) WordPress
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) CICS
3 1 (2.70%) Mule
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (24.32%) Serverless
3 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (16.22%) AWS CodePipeline
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.51%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.11%) Azure API Management
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.11%) Firebase
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (5.41%) dbt
6 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (13.51%) MySQL
5 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database
5 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
6 3 (8.11%) SSDT
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (5.41%) Big Data
7 2 (5.41%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
7 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.70%) Aerospike
8 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Storybook
2 6 (16.22%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io
4 4 (10.81%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) GitLab
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Vite
6 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Aviation
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) React Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) PHP Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Junior
7 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Tester
7 1 (2.70%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) CSS
2 8 (21.62%) Kafka
2 8 (21.62%) React
3 7 (18.92%) HTML
4 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
4 6 (16.22%) REST
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
4 6 (16.22%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (13.51%) AWS CDK
5 5 (13.51%) Jest
5 5 (13.51%) Web Services
6 4 (10.81%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) Ajax
6 4 (10.81%) CodeIgniter
6 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
6 4 (10.81%) jQuery
6 4 (10.81%) LAMP
6 4 (10.81%) SOAP
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Amplify
7 3 (8.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Legacy Code
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 14 (37.84%) DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) Unit Testing
4 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) Clean Code
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) Scrum
6 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (18.92%) OO
6 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
7 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
7 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
7 6 (16.22%) Kanban
7 6 (16.22%) MVC
7 6 (16.22%) OWASP
7 6 (16.22%) TDD
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Python
4 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.51%) PHP
6 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
7 3 (8.11%) C#
7 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) Bash
8 1 (2.70%) COBOL
8 1 (2.70%) JCL
8 1 (2.70%) REXX
8 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CEH
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Zend
4 3 (8.11%) UiPath
5 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.70%) Solace
6 1 (2.70%) Veracode