Hybrid/Remote CodeQL Contract Job Trends

GitHub CodeQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring CodeQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CodeQL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.048% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £525 -
% change year-on-year +23.81% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

CodeQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,200 3,474 4,438
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 31.12% 36.04% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 2,331 3,014
10th Percentile £363 £344 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £718 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 82 60
10th Percentile £40.00 £31.25 £25.83
25th Percentile £62.50 £52.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73.83 £67.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

CodeQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SBOM
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow