Interactive Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 - 589
Rank change year-on-year - - +151
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 9 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £433 - £516
25th Percentile £438 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.57%
75th Percentile £686 - £781
90th Percentile - - £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Interactive 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,013 27,550 38,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.71% 89.93% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 17,122 25,100
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 871 2,197
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.96 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.51% -9.60% -

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Interactive Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interactive Application Security Testing

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
UK excluding London - 9 £518 - 3
England - 5 £447 - 3
Scotland - 4 £683 -
Midlands - 4 £442 -
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
Work from Home - 3 £438 - 2
North of England - 1 £518 - 3
North West - 1 £518 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (11.11%) Anycast
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) DMVPN
3 1 (11.11%) IPsec
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) NGFW
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Snyk
3 1 (11.11%) AppScan
3 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
3 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Design Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) SLSA
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 3 (33.33%) OpenID
2 3 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Kali Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 8 (88.89%) Application Security
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) OWASP
3 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (77.78%) SBOM
3 7 (77.78%) SDLC
4 6 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
4 6 (66.67%) SABSA
4 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
5 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
5 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
5 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (44.44%) Secrets Management
5 4 (44.44%) Security Testing
5 4 (44.44%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISM
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) NIST
2 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (33.33%) GRC
3 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (33.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (11.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
1 4 (44.44%) Tenable
2 3 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (33.33%) Black Duck
2 3 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Veracode
4 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm