Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 586 730
Rank change year-on-year +114 +144 -108
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 71 52 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.11% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 42 35
10th Percentile £530 £475 £462
25th Percentile £600 £563 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £725
90th Percentile £823 £832 £742
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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 Dynamic Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London +117 62 £650 +4.00% 9
North of England +24 2 £663 +32.50% 1
North West +19 2 £663 +17.78% 1
South East +12 2 £650 -13.33%
South West +10 2 £725 +16.00% 2
Midlands +9 1 £750 +3.45%
West Midlands +3 1 £750 +3.45%
Dynamic Application Security Testing
UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 11 (15.49%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) Miro
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.41%) Route 53
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) GitLab
3 4 (5.63%) Burp Suite
3 4 (5.63%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) Git
4 1 (1.41%) Selenium
4 1 (1.41%) Snyk
General
1 46 (64.79%) Finance
2 11 (15.49%) Financial Institution
3 9 (12.68%) Banking
3 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Front Office
5 4 (5.63%) Retail
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Project Manager
1 20 (28.17%) Security Manager
1 20 (28.17%) Security Project Manager
2 17 (23.94%) Security Engineer
3 16 (22.54%) Architect
3 16 (22.54%) Security Architect
4 15 (21.13%) Applications Architect
5 13 (18.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 13 (18.31%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 8 (11.27%) CISSP Manager
7 7 (9.86%) Consultant
8 6 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Contracts Manager
8 6 (8.45%) Information Architect
8 6 (8.45%) IT Manager
8 6 (8.45%) IT Project Manager
8 6 (8.45%) IT Security Manager
8 6 (8.45%) IT Services Manager
8 6 (8.45%) Security Consultant
8 6 (8.45%) Service Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) GraphQL
1 4 (5.63%) Java EE
1 4 (5.63%) REST
1 4 (5.63%) SOAP
1 4 (5.63%) Spring
1 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.41%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) RESTful
3 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.23%) PMI
3 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
1 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) zOS
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 38 (53.52%) Application Security
3 28 (39.44%) Security Testing
4 23 (32.39%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (29.58%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (28.17%) CI/CD
6 20 (28.17%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 19 (26.76%) Information Security
7 19 (26.76%) Threat Modelling
8 18 (25.35%) DevSecOps
9 17 (23.94%) Project Management
10 16 (22.54%) DevOps
11 14 (19.72%) Project Delivery
12 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
13 11 (15.49%) Agile
14 9 (12.68%) Penetration Testing
14 9 (12.68%) SDLC
15 8 (11.27%) Secure Coding
15 8 (11.27%) Security Architecture
16 7 (9.86%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) Java
2 7 (9.86%) C++
3 5 (7.04%) Bash
3 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) Python
5 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) CISSP
2 19 (26.76%) CISM
3 17 (23.94%) CISA
4 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.82%) CRISC
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.41%) CEH
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) GCIA
6 1 (1.41%) GCIH
6 1 (1.41%) GIAC
6 1 (1.41%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.86%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) NIST
4 3 (4.23%) GDPR
4 3 (4.23%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 4 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.41%) Nmap
4 1 (1.41%) SCCM
4 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) Qualys
3 4 (5.63%) Checkmarx
3 4 (5.63%) Veracode
4 3 (4.23%) Splunk
5 2 (2.82%) F5
6 1 (1.41%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) VMware