Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 435 501
Rank change year-on-year +58 +66 -72
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 16 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.067% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.075% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 6
10th Percentile £475 £530 £369
25th Percentile £550 £575 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £427
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +46.37% +6.75%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £428
90th Percentile £784 £760 £558
UK median daily rate £650 £638 £650
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing 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 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
South West +28 7 £600 -4.00% 4
Scotland - 4 £606 -
North of England +30 2 £663 +32.50% 1
North West +27 2 £663 +17.78% 1
South East +23 2 £650 -13.33% 1
Midlands +21 1 £750 +3.45% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £750 +3.45% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Snyk
1 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Security Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Security Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Development Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) PKI
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) SIEM
2 8 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Security Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Application Security
5 5 (31.25%) SDLC
5 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (18.75%) Data Security
7 3 (18.75%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL
7 3 (18.75%) OWASP
7 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (18.75%) MCSE
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
4 1 (6.25%) Nmap
4 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Qualys
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) SAP