Snyk Contracts

Snyk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Snyk skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snyk over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 564 688
Rank change year-on-year +56 +124 +159
Contract jobs citing Snyk 13 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.021% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £453 - £428
25th Percentile £563 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £600
90th Percentile £738 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Snyk falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,163 5,133 8,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 12.06% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 3,442 5,983
10th Percentile £335 £353 £381
25th Percentile £410 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 205 231
10th Percentile £25.25 £32.23 £44.60
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £83.75 £79.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +5.69% +11.82%

Snyk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Snyk in the UK

Snyk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Snyk in the UK

Snyk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snyk over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snyk in the UK

Snyk
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snyk within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +72 13 £575 +15.00% 44
London +30 7 £650 - 26
Work from Home +23 6 £575 +15.00% 20
UK excluding London +50 5 £575 +15.00% 23
South East - 3 £575 - 13
South West +40 1 £600 +20.00% 5
West Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 -

Snyk
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 5 (38.46%) SonarCloud
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) SonarQube
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Compliance Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Compliance Project Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Data Compliance Manager
1 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Security Compliance Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
1 3 (23.08%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Management Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) OWASP
3 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
4 6 (46.15%) Secure Coding
5 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
8 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Static Code Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
4 3 (23.08%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SANS
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Coverity
1 5 (38.46%) Veracode
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) New Relic
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Tenable