Secure Coding Contracts

Secure Code Development
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 624 675
Rank change year-on-year +139 +51 -119
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 93 92 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 63 141
10th Percentile £470 £375 £404
25th Percentile £550 £472 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -2.09% +16.16%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £729 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £523
% change year-on-year +18.18% +5.14% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73.80
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £80.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Secure Coding 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +127 88 £650 +13.04% 48
UK excluding London +68 51 £650 +18.18% 23
London +121 40 £600 -5.88% 26
Work from Home +121 39 £631 +13.43% 23
South East +36 21 £675 +18.94% 5
South West +37 17 £663 +65.63% 6
North of England +22 9 £624 +13.36% 7
Yorkshire - 8 £625 - 2
Scotland +33 3 £621 +27.33%
North West +14 1 £425 -19.05% 5
East of England +8 1 £675 - 2

Secure Coding
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 8 (8.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) JBoss
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.39%) AWS
2 30 (32.26%) Azure
3 12 (12.90%) GitHub
4 11 (11.83%) GCP
5 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.60%) Serverless
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.45%) Apigee
7 6 (6.45%) Azure API Management
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Batch
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Storage
7 6 (6.45%) Kong
7 6 (6.45%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.45%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) Firewall
2 10 (10.75%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.60%) Network Security
4 7 (7.53%) DNS
4 7 (7.53%) HTTP
5 6 (6.45%) VPN
6 4 (4.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.15%) SAN
8 1 (1.08%) DHCP
8 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.08%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.08%) SCCP
8 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (20.43%) Oracle Database
3 18 (19.35%) Oracle Database 11g
4 7 (7.53%) Big Data
4 7 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.45%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.45%) OLTP
6 5 (5.38%) GIS
6 5 (5.38%) Spatial Data
7 2 (2.15%) MySQL
7 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.08%) Redis
8 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (20.43%) Git
2 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.60%) CircleCI
3 8 (8.60%) JIRA
4 7 (7.53%) GitLab
4 7 (7.53%) Travis CI
5 6 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.45%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (2.15%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.08%) Darcs
7 1 (1.08%) Gradle
7 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.08%) Maven
7 1 (1.08%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.08%) Mockito
7 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (19.35%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Banking
5 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.23%) Electronics
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing
6 3 (3.23%) Retail
6 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (56.99%) Developer
2 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 14 (15.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (11.83%) Security Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Security Architect
6 8 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.38%) GIS Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior
9 4 (4.30%) Applications Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Applications Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) AngularJS
2 14 (15.05%) JSON
2 14 (15.05%) React
2 14 (15.05%) Spring
3 12 (12.90%) XML
4 8 (8.60%) .NET
4 8 (8.60%) Web Services
5 7 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (7.53%) YAML
6 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
6 6 (6.45%) REST
7 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.30%) HTML
7 4 (4.30%) RESTful
8 3 (3.23%) CSS
8 3 (3.23%) Flask
9 2 (2.15%) Android SDK
9 2 (2.15%) OAuth
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (2.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
1 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.38%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.15%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.15%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.08%) CBDC
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Android
3 2 (2.15%) Debian
3 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.14%) DevOps
2 37 (39.78%) Agile
3 34 (36.56%) Clean Code
4 33 (35.48%) Unit Testing
5 25 (26.88%) Migration
5 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (25.81%) Data Migration
7 23 (24.73%) Software Engineering
8 20 (21.51%) Project Management
9 19 (20.43%) Architectural Design
10 18 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (19.35%) Software Testing
11 17 (18.28%) Change Management
12 16 (17.20%) Programme Management
13 15 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (16.13%) Scrum
14 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
14 14 (15.05%) OO
14 14 (15.05%) OOP
14 14 (15.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.78%) Python
2 28 (30.11%) Java
3 19 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (19.35%) PL/SQL
4 18 (19.35%) SQL
5 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
6 14 (15.05%) C
7 10 (10.75%) C#
8 6 (6.45%) Bash
9 4 (4.30%) C++
10 3 (3.23%) Go
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) CISSP
3 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.53%) Degree
5 5 (5.38%) CEH
5 5 (5.38%) CISM
5 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.23%) CSSLP
6 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.15%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.08%) CLAS
8 1 (1.08%) GCIA
8 1 (1.08%) GSEC
8 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.81%) QA
2 9 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.60%) NIST
4 3 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.23%) GPG13
4 3 (3.23%) NCSC
4 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.15%) COBIT
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) Terraform
2 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.83%) Grafana
3 11 (11.83%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.60%) Ansible
5 7 (7.53%) Kibana
5 7 (7.53%) logstash
5 7 (7.53%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.53%) Puppet
6 6 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.15%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) CASB
8 1 (1.08%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Oracle
2 9 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.53%) Splunk
4 6 (6.45%) Qualys
5 5 (5.38%) ESRI
6 4 (4.30%) Google
6 4 (4.30%) SAP
7 3 (3.23%) VMware
8 2 (2.15%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.15%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.15%) Veracode
9 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.08%) Remedy