Netsparker Contract Job Trends

Netsparker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Netsparker products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Netsparker over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Netsparker Ltd.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 533 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs citing Netsparker 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.006% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% 0.014% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Netsparker falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,128 14,609 18,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.06% 45.86% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,046 8,663 11,892
10th Percentile £300 £281 £255
25th Percentile £410 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 427 690
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.75 £27.35 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -36.40% +39.84%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.06 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.50 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.00% -43.82% +74.44%

Netsparker
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Netsparker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Netsparker job vacancy trend in the UK

Netsparker
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Netsparker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Netsparker

Netsparker
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Netsparker within the UK over the 6 months to 16 January 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
London -11 1 £675 - 1
England -46 1 £675 - 1

Netsparker
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) RPG
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Acunetix
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode