Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 438 575
Rank change year-on-year +135 +137 -100
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 34 29 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 37
10th Percentile £600 £500 £427
25th Percentile £606 £513 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year - +10.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile - £738 £700
90th Percentile £675 - £730
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £644
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% +11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Dynamic Application Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
1 11 (32.35%) SaaS
2 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (29.41%) IaaS
2 10 (29.41%) PaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Miro
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Route 53
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
1 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) SonarQube
2 6 (17.65%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.94%) Snyk
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Project Manager
2 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 6 (17.65%) Security Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Security Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Security Project Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Information Security Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) IT Security Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) ARM Templates
1 10 (29.41%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.88%) Java EE
2 2 (5.88%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) SOAP
2 2 (5.88%) Spring
2 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Management Information System
1 10 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 22 (64.71%) DevOps
3 18 (52.94%) Application Security
3 18 (52.94%) DevSecOps
4 16 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (47.06%) Test Automation
5 15 (44.12%) Security Testing
6 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
7 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
8 11 (32.35%) SDLC
8 11 (32.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (29.41%) Functional Testing
9 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
9 10 (29.41%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (29.41%) Performance Analysis
9 10 (29.41%) Project Management
9 10 (29.41%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Java
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) CISSP
4 3 (8.82%) CISM
4 3 (8.82%) CRISC
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.94%) MCSE
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) NCSC
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
2 14 (41.18%) Ansible
2 14 (41.18%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.94%) Nmap
3 1 (2.94%) SCCM