Defensive Programming Contracts in England

Defensive Programming
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Defensive Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defensive Programming over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 636 775
Rank change year-on-year +90 +139 -
Contract jobs citing Defensive Programming 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.002% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile £625 £388 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £675 £563 £572
90th Percentile - - £574
UK median daily rate £650 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +36.84% -9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Defensive Programming 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Defensive Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Defensive Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Defensive Programming in England

Defensive Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defensive Programming in England.

Daily rate trend for Defensive Programming in England

Defensive Programming
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defensive Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 5 £650 -
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Defensive Programming
UK

Defensive Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Application Security
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Data Security
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 5 (100.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Docker