Static Application Security Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 320 423
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 +178
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 22 30 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 28
10th Percentile £332 £468 £413
25th Percentile £370 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% -7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £738
90th Percentile £675 - £741
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650

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 9,345 12,722 21,755
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,327 8,557 15,344
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 554 526
10th Percentile £12.73 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.26 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -18.10% +28.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

Static Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Static Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Static Application Security Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Static Application Security Testing.

Static Application Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Static Application Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Static Application Security Testing.

Static Application Security Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure AKS
3 7 (31.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (31.82%) GitHub
4 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 6 (27.27%) GCP
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (9.09%) CloudBees
7 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) FTP
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) SMTP
2 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 3 (13.64%) Burp Suite
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Metasploit
4 2 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Information Security Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Security Technical Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Technical Security Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Information Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (9.09%) YAML
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 13 (59.09%) Application Security
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) DevSecOps
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 10 (45.45%) Security Testing
5 9 (40.91%) Cloud Security
6 8 (36.36%) OWASP
7 7 (31.82%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (31.82%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (22.73%) Information Security
9 5 (22.73%) SDLC
9 5 (22.73%) Secure Coding
10 4 (18.18%) Microservices
10 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
10 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Bicep
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) CHECK Team Member
3 3 (13.64%) CREST Certified
3 3 (13.64%) OSCP
3 3 (13.64%) Tigerscheme
4 2 (9.09%) CISA
4 2 (9.09%) CISM
4 2 (9.09%) CSSLP
4 2 (9.09%) GIAC
4 2 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (4.55%) GPEN
5 1 (4.55%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (13.64%) NCSC
2 3 (13.64%) NIST
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.55%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Nmap
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) SCCM
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Qualys
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Veracode
3 2 (9.09%) Tenable