Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RASP over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 697 848
Rank change year-on-year +114 +151 -159
Contract jobs citing RASP 3 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.002% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £590
25th Percentile - £563 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £651
Median % change year-on-year - -11.61% +25.70%
75th Percentile - £588 £688
90th Percentile - - £733
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +35.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RASP 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RASP.

Daily rate trend for RASP in the UK

RASP
Top 2 Contract 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 12 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
England +111 3 - -
London +95 3 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Akamai
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) gRPC
1 3 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Imperva