Interactive Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 630 778
Rank change year-on-year +102 +148 -119
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 22 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.013% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.014% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 6
10th Percentile £475 £694 £566
25th Percentile £597 £713 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +7.41% +20.00%
75th Percentile £823 £738 £725
90th Percentile £894 - £744
UK median daily rate £765 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +5.52% +7.41% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Interactive 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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in England

Interactive 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 Interactive Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London - 19 £765 -
South West - 3 £500 - 2
Interactive Application Security Testing
UK

Interactive 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Snyk
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Front Office
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Applications Architect
1 14 (63.64%) Architect
1 14 (63.64%) Security Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Information Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Information Security Architect
3 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 20 (90.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 15 (68.18%) Application Security
3 15 (68.18%) Threat Modelling
4 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
5 12 (54.55%) DevSecOps
5 12 (54.55%) Information Security
6 9 (40.91%) Agile
6 9 (40.91%) DevOps
7 8 (36.36%) Secure Coding
8 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (27.27%) Security Architecture
9 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (22.73%) Business Strategy
10 5 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
10 5 (22.73%) Technology Roadmap
11 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
11 3 (13.64%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) C++
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Bicep
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) CISSP
2 6 (27.27%) CISA
2 6 (27.27%) CISM
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) CEH
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) GCIA
4 1 (4.55%) GCIH
4 1 (4.55%) GIAC
4 1 (4.55%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) ArcSight
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) Veracode