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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 296 345
Rank change year-on-year +58 +49 +175
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 70 29 28
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 22 19
10th Percentile £439 £356 £450
25th Percentile £475 £585 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £644 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +11.96% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £628
90th Percentile £708 £698 £688
UK median daily rate £554 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -13.14% +2.00% +8.70%

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 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £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 £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -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 14 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 25 (35.71%) GitHub
3 21 (30.00%) Azure
4 17 (24.29%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (15.71%) GCP
6 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 10 (14.29%) Serverless
7 9 (12.86%) Power Automate
8 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.57%) PowerApps
9 5 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (7.14%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (4.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) SSL
3 3 (4.29%) Network Security
3 3 (4.29%) S/MIME
4 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.71%) Power BI
2 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) MySQL
4 1 (1.43%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.43%) Hasura
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.71%) Git
3 8 (11.43%) GitLab
4 6 (8.57%) JIRA
5 4 (5.71%) Snyk
5 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.86%) Burp Suite
7 2 (2.86%) Metasploit
7 2 (2.86%) Mockito
8 1 (1.43%) Gatling
8 1 (1.43%) JMeter
8 1 (1.43%) JUnit
8 1 (1.43%) Mocha
8 1 (1.43%) NUnit
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.86%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.57%) Finance
4 9 (12.86%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Developer
2 17 (24.29%) Lead
3 13 (18.57%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Architect
7 5 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Consultant
9 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.29%) GCP Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) RESTful
2 9 (12.86%) Spring
2 9 (12.86%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.43%) Node.js
3 8 (11.43%) REST
4 7 (10.00%) .NET
5 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.14%) CSS
5 5 (7.14%) HTML
5 5 (7.14%) OAuth
5 5 (7.14%) React
6 4 (5.71%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.71%) JWT
7 3 (4.29%) Jest
7 3 (4.29%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (4.29%) Loki
7 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.29%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.29%) XSD
8 2 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) PKI
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.43%) CMDB
7 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.43%) Life Science
7 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Unix
3 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.86%) Android
4 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.43%) VMS
5 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 34 (48.57%) Agile
3 25 (35.71%) DevOps
4 22 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (27.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (25.71%) Containerisation
7 17 (24.29%) Microservices
8 16 (22.86%) Data Protection
9 14 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 14 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (17.14%) Scrum
10 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
11 11 (15.71%) OWASP
12 10 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
13 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (11.43%) AI
14 8 (11.43%) Application Security
14 8 (11.43%) SDLC
14 8 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
14 8 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Java
2 14 (20.00%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) SQL
4 12 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.57%) C#
7 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.71%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) Bash
10 2 (2.86%) Dart
11 1 (1.43%) Bicep
11 1 (1.43%) C
11 1 (1.43%) C++
11 1 (1.43%) CFML
11 1 (1.43%) F#
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
11 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.43%) R
11 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) CISSP
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.29%) OSCP
5 2 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) CCSP
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.86%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.86%) CSSLP
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) SANS
6 1 (1.43%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.43%) CISA
6 1 (1.43%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PMP
6 1 (1.43%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (11.43%) NIST
3 6 (8.57%) QA
4 5 (7.14%) GDPR
5 4 (5.71%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.86%) NCSC
7 2 (2.86%) PSD2
8 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.43%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.43%) GxP
8 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) Docker
2 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (22.86%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Grafana
3 6 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.29%) Ansible
5 2 (2.86%) Istio
5 2 (2.86%) Nmap
6 1 (1.43%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.43%) Nessus
6 1 (1.43%) Rsyslog
6 1 (1.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.86%) Ariba
4 2 (2.86%) Qualys
4 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) Veracode
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe
5 1 (1.43%) Apple
5 1 (1.43%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.43%) Clearswift
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) New Relic
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.43%) Pega
5 1 (1.43%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow