Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Wales

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £606 £612 £675
% change year-on-year -0.94% -9.33% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 322 340 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 83.85% 78.16% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 180 318
10th Percentile £190 £140 £180
25th Percentile £273 £212 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £573
90th Percentile £646 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 47 21
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - £51.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Wales

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Dynamic Application Security Testing
UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk