Hybrid/Remote Interactive Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 - 354
Rank change year-on-year - - +149
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £442 - £525
90th Percentile £445 - -
UK median daily rate £518 - £688
% change year-on-year - - +19.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Interactive 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 10,113 9,646 14,421
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.42% 90.42% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,616 6,322 9,674
10th Percentile £345 £330 £340
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 193 527
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.28 £15.22
25th Percentile £27.00 £23.50 £22.74
Median hourly rate £57.30 £38.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.83% -14.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.75 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.84 £75.00 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Interactive Application Security Testing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Interactive Application Security Testing

Interactive Application Security Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (100.00%) SABSA
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) GRC
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk