Secure Coding Contracts with Work from Home Options

Secure Code Development
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 Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 423 520
Rank change year-on-year +118 +97 -126
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 39 48 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 70
10th Percentile £413 £375 £402
25th Percentile £503 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -3.22% +16.16%
75th Percentile £688 £647 £638
90th Percentile - £730 £689
UK median daily rate £650 £562 £575
% change year-on-year +15.76% -2.35% +16.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Secure Coding 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 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Secure Coding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Secure Coding trend for jobs with a WFH option

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding.

Secure Coding daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Secure Coding daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Secure Coding
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 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Azure API Management
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Batch
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.13%) Apigee
7 2 (5.13%) Kong
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
1 7 (17.95%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.69%) DNS
3 3 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.13%) HTTP
4 2 (5.13%) SAN
4 2 (5.13%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) DHCP
5 1 (2.56%) SCCP
5 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 13 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (10.26%) Big Data
4 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.69%) OLTP
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.56%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.56%) Flink
5 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) CircleCI
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) Travis CI
4 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (5.13%) Android Studio
5 2 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.56%) Darcs
6 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
General
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
1 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Retail
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (58.97%) Developer
2 13 (33.33%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Security Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Security Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Android Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) JSON
1 5 (12.82%) XML
2 4 (10.26%) .NET
3 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.69%) Web Services
4 2 (5.13%) Android SDK
4 2 (5.13%) HTML
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) RESTful
4 2 (5.13%) YAML
5 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.56%) CSS
5 1 (2.56%) Flask
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.56%) React
5 1 (2.56%) Svelte
5 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.56%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) CBDC
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Debian
2 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) DevOps
2 17 (43.59%) Clean Code
3 16 (41.03%) Data Migration
3 16 (41.03%) Migration
3 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
4 14 (35.90%) Architectural Design
5 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 13 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 10 (25.64%) Agile
7 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.38%) OWASP
9 6 (15.38%) Scrum
9 6 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
10 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 4 (10.26%) Kanban
11 4 (10.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 13 (33.33%) SQL
2 12 (30.77%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) C
7 1 (2.56%) C++
7 1 (2.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) CISSP
4 3 (7.69%) CEH
4 3 (7.69%) CISM
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) CREST Certified
5 2 (5.13%) CSSLP
5 2 (5.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (5.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) CISA
6 1 (2.56%) CLAS
6 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (15.38%) NIST
3 3 (7.69%) GPG13
3 3 (7.69%) NCSC
3 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.13%) COBIT
4 2 (5.13%) ISO 22301
4 2 (5.13%) QA
5 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Kibana
3 3 (7.69%) logstash
3 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.69%) Puppet
4 2 (5.13%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.13%) Nessus
5 1 (2.56%) CASB
5 1 (2.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) Qualys
4 3 (7.69%) Google
4 3 (7.69%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Checkmarx
5 2 (5.13%) Rapid7
5 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.13%) Veracode
5 2 (5.13%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) Remedy
6 1 (2.56%) SAP