RASP Contract Job Trends

Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RASP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RASP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RASP 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 29,844 32,922 45,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.44% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,561 20,751 30,877
10th Percentile £300 £310 £319
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 1,620 1,522
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.50 £18.76
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.65
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% +0.91% +51.45%
75th Percentile £47.12 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £75.00 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -47.37% +14.67% +66.67%

RASP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RASP in the UK

RASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RASP
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RASP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Work from Home - 1 £765 -

RASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google