Hybrid/Remote Secure Coding Contract Job Trends

Secure Code Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 286 363
Rank change year-on-year +35 +77 +163
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 67 30 28
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 19
10th Percentile £435 £356 £450
25th Percentile £467 £585 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £628
90th Percentile £700 £752 £688
UK median daily rate £558 £638 £606
% change year-on-year -12.55% +5.15% +5.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Secure Coding 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 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Secure Coding daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Secure Coding
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 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.49%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) AWS
2 22 (32.84%) GitHub
3 20 (29.85%) Azure
4 14 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (16.42%) GCP
6 10 (14.93%) Power Platform
7 9 (13.43%) Power Automate
8 8 (11.94%) Serverless
9 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
9 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
10 5 (7.46%) Cloud Functions
10 5 (7.46%) Cloud Run
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) SSL
3 3 (4.48%) Network Security
3 3 (4.48%) S/MIME
4 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.49%) SAN
4 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.48%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Aerospike
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.49%) Hasura
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.88%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.42%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) GitLab
4 6 (8.96%) JIRA
5 4 (5.97%) Snyk
5 4 (5.97%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.99%) Burp Suite
7 2 (2.99%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.49%) JUnit
8 1 (1.49%) Mocha
8 1 (1.49%) Mockito
8 1 (1.49%) NUnit
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 23 (34.33%) Public Sector
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (47.76%) Developer
2 16 (23.88%) Lead
3 13 (19.40%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Lead Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Architect
7 5 (7.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) RESTful
2 8 (11.94%) Spring
2 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.45%) Node.js
3 7 (10.45%) REST
4 6 (8.96%) .NET
5 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.46%) CSS
5 5 (7.46%) HTML
5 5 (7.46%) React
6 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.97%) OAuth
7 3 (4.48%) Jest
7 3 (4.48%) JWT
7 3 (4.48%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (4.48%) Loki
7 3 (4.48%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.48%) XSD
8 2 (2.99%) Flutter
8 2 (2.99%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Security Posture
2 7 (10.45%) Virtual Team
3 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.97%) PKI
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) CMDB
7 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.49%) Life Science
7 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.99%) Android
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.99%) Windows
5 1 (1.49%) Debian
5 1 (1.49%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.49%) VMS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) Agile
1 35 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 23 (34.33%) DevOps
3 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (25.37%) Containerisation
4 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (23.88%) Data Protection
6 15 (22.39%) Microservices
7 13 (19.40%) DevSecOps
7 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
8 12 (17.91%) Scrum
8 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
9 10 (14.93%) OWASP
10 9 (13.43%) Clean Code
10 9 (13.43%) Threat Modelling
11 8 (11.94%) Application Security
11 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.94%) SDLC
11 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
12 7 (10.45%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) Java
2 15 (22.39%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.46%) C#
7 4 (5.97%) Go
7 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.48%) Bash
9 2 (2.99%) Dart
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) CFML
10 1 (1.49%) F#
10 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.49%) PHP
10 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.49%) Ruby
10 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) CISSP
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.48%) OSCP
5 2 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CCSP
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.99%) CSSLP
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) SANS
6 1 (1.49%) CISA
6 1 (1.49%) CRISC
6 1 (1.49%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) GIAC
6 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (11.94%) NIST
3 6 (8.96%) QA
4 5 (7.46%) GDPR
5 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.99%) PSD2
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.49%) GxP
8 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.49%) NCSC
8 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (40.30%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (37.31%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Terraform
3 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.46%) Grafana
5 3 (4.48%) Ansible
6 2 (2.99%) Istio
6 2 (2.99%) Nmap
7 1 (1.49%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.49%) Nessus
7 1 (1.49%) Rsyslog
7 1 (1.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Google
3 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.99%) Ariba
4 2 (2.99%) Qualys
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Veracode
5 1 (1.49%) Apple
5 1 (1.49%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.49%) Clearswift
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.49%) Pega
5 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.49%) Remedy
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Tenable
5 1 (1.49%) VMware