Static Code Analysis Contracts

Static Code Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Static Code Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Static Code Analysis over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 671 808
Rank change year-on-year +105 +137 -170
Contract jobs citing Static Code Analysis 19 22 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.038% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.042% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 29
10th Percentile £431 £550 £495
25th Percentile £513 £585 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £840 £612
Median % change year-on-year -36.01% +37.25% +23.64%
75th Percentile £650 £1,074 £738
90th Percentile £810 - £758
UK excluding London median daily rate - £563 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Static Code Analysis 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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +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%

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 7 May 2024.

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 3 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 7 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 +101 16 £538 -36.01% 8
London +92 16 £538 -49.95% 4
Work from Home +126 9 £513 -15.50% 26

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.26%) Bigtable
4 1 (5.26%) CockroachDB
4 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.26%) CouchDB
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 6 (31.58%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
4 4 (21.05%) JUnit
5 2 (10.53%) GitLab
6 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
6 1 (5.26%) Gradle
6 1 (5.26%) Maven
6 1 (5.26%) Mockito
6 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Automotive
3 2 (10.53%) Electronics
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Advisor
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) REST
1 8 (42.11%) Spring
1 8 (42.11%) Spring Boot
2 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
2 7 (36.84%) JPA
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Security
3 2 (10.53%) Loki
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Observability
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) High Availability
3 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Cryptography
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) OWASP
4 6 (31.58%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (26.32%) Dynamic Code Analysis
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 5 (26.32%) Secure Coding
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) SOLID
6 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) CEH
2 3 (15.79%) CISSP
3 2 (10.53%) CISM
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) CREST Certified
3 2 (10.53%) CSSLP
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Automotive SPICE
1 2 (10.53%) AUTOSAR
1 2 (10.53%) COBIT
1 2 (10.53%) ISO 22301
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) Istio
3 2 (10.53%) Nessus
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) CASB
4 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
4 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Qualys
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) SAP