Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 384 447
Rank change year-on-year +66 +63 +55
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 18 15 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.072% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.085% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £477 £475 £523
25th Percentile £569 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +46.37%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £738
90th Percentile £776 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £665 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +2.31% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Static Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
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 Static Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +29 12 £725 +9.43% 15
Yorkshire - 9 £713 - 8
Scotland +12 3 £550 +11.39% 3
Midlands +23 2 £775 +3.33% 5
West Midlands +15 2 £775 +3.33% 5
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +45 1 £650 - 12
North West +16 1 £750 +13.21% 7
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static Application Security Testing
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 7 (38.89%) nginx
1 7 (38.89%) Traefik
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 9 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.11%) CloudBees
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
1 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Compliance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (50.00%) Kafka
1 9 (50.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Unix
2 9 (50.00%) CentOS
2 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 13 (72.22%) DevOps
3 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (66.67%) Cloud Security
4 11 (61.11%) Identity Management
5 10 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (50.00%) Agile
6 9 (50.00%) Observability
6 9 (50.00%) Secrets Management
7 7 (38.89%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
9 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
10 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
10 3 (16.67%) Email Filtering
10 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Bash
2 9 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.56%) MCSE
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) NCSC
2 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.56%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (61.11%) Grafana
2 11 (61.11%) Prometheus
3 9 (50.00%) Consul
3 9 (50.00%) Istio
3 9 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (50.00%) linkerd
3 9 (50.00%) Packer
3 9 (50.00%) Rancher
3 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (50.00%) ZABBIX
4 7 (38.89%) HAProxy
5 3 (16.67%) SCCM
6 2 (11.11%) CASB
7 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Splunk
2 9 (50.00%) Okta
3 7 (38.89%) Apple
3 7 (38.89%) ESET
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) TOWER Software
5 1 (5.56%) VMware