Hybrid/Remote Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Static Application Security Testing 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 300 287 365
Rank change year-on-year -13 +78 +152
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 18 29 26
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 19
10th Percentile £338 £464 £510
25th Percentile £402 £553 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +1.92% +1.96%
75th Percentile £622 £724 £663
90th Percentile £675 £750 £678
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Static 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 9,282 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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Static Application Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Static Application Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Static 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) GitHub
3 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (16.67%) Datadog
7 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) Snyk
5 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
5 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.56%) Metasploit
5 1 (5.56%) Pylint
5 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.56%) Flake8
2 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.56%) mypy
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) DevOps
4 10 (55.56%) Application Security
5 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (50.00%) Security Testing
6 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
7 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
7 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
8 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (27.78%) SDLC
8 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
8 5 (27.78%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Groovy
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCSP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CSSLP
3 2 (11.11%) GIAC
3 2 (11.11%) OSCP
4 1 (5.56%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.56%) GPEN
4 1 (5.56%) GWAPT
4 1 (5.56%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 3 (16.67%) GRC
3 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) PSD2
3 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Argo
4 3 (16.67%) Grafana
4 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.11%) Istio
5 2 (11.11%) Podman
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Nmap
6 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
1 2 (11.11%) Veracode
2 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft