Static Code Analysis Contracts

Static Code Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Static Code Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Code Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 562 696
Rank change year-on-year +56 +134 +122
Contract jobs citing Static Code Analysis 14 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.046% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.053% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 18
10th Percentile £324 £431 £550
25th Percentile £368 £513 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £538 £840
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% -36.01% +37.25%
75th Percentile £444 £650 £1,074
90th Percentile £509 £810 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £563
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Static Code Analysis 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Static Code Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Static Code Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Static Code Analysis in the UK

Static Code Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Static Code Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Static Code Analysis in the UK

Static Code Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Code Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Static Code Analysis in the UK

Static Code Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Static Code Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Static Code Analysis in the UK

Static Code Analysis
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Static Code Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +54 14 £420 -21.86% 13
London +34 13 £415 -22.79% 7
Work from Home +37 5 £375 -26.83% 13
North of England - 1 £550 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £550 - 6
North East - 1 £550 -

Static Code Analysis
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 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (50.00%) Serverless
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) FTP
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
1 3 (21.43%) SMTP
1 3 (21.43%) SSL
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Mockito
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 2 (14.29%) Xcode
2 2 (14.29%) XCTest
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) boto
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (21.43%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) CSS3
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) HTML5
3 2 (14.29%) J2EE
3 2 (14.29%) JPA
3 2 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (35.71%) Microservices
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 4 (28.57%) Dynamic Code Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
7 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) Bicep
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL
5 1 (7.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) New Relic