Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 315 446
Rank change year-on-year +34 +131 +126
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 21 34 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 24
10th Percentile £350 £600 £500
25th Percentile £461 £606 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +6.12% +4.26%
75th Percentile £738 - £728
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £725 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Dynamic Application Security Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 5 (23.81%) nginx
1 5 (23.81%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon ECS
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Entra ID
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
1 9 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) FTP
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
2 2 (9.52%) SMTP
2 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
1 6 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Information Security Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Security Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Security Technical Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Security Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) cloud-init
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
1 7 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (9.52%) YAML
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) PKI
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) CentOS
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Static Application Security Testing
2 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (71.43%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (38.10%) Observability
5 8 (38.10%) OWASP
6 7 (33.33%) Application Security
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (33.33%) Identity Management
6 7 (33.33%) Secrets Management
6 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
7 6 (28.57%) DevSecOps
8 5 (23.81%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (23.81%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Secure Coding
9 4 (19.05%) Information Security
9 4 (19.05%) Project Planning
9 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) Go
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Bicep
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
5 1 (4.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) NCSC
2 4 (19.05%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Grafana
1 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 7 (33.33%) Consul
3 7 (33.33%) Istio
3 7 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (33.33%) linkerd
3 7 (33.33%) Packer
3 7 (33.33%) Rancher
3 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 7 (33.33%) ZABBIX
4 5 (23.81%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Splunk
2 7 (33.33%) Okta
3 5 (23.81%) Apple
3 5 (23.81%) ESET
4 2 (9.52%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) Veracode