Hybrid/Remote Veracode Contract Job Trends

Veracode
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Veracode products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Veracode over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Veracode, Inc.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 308 350
Rank change year-on-year -3 +42 +162
Contract jobs citing Veracode 5 4 14
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.048% 0.037% 0.086%
As % of the Vendors category 0.099% 0.082% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £628 £547 -
25th Percentile £655 £553 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £571 £405
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% +40.86% -28.00%
75th Percentile £736 £581 £500
90th Percentile £757 £584 £511
UK median daily rate £632 £586 £455
% change year-on-year +7.85% +28.79% -16.29%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Veracode falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,039 4,901 7,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.56% 44.88% 44.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 2,974 4,537
10th Percentile £325 £319 £320
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £630
90th Percentile £715 £713 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 84 204
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.18 £14.17
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.42 £23.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £39.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% -19.39% -22.22%
75th Percentile £63.94 £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year -13.36% -20.29% +8.12%

Veracode
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Veracode job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Veracode
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Veracode
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 2 (40.00%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) git-flow
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (20.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Development
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Jinja
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) OSCP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Opsgenie
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Black Duck
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Intel
2 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable