Static Application Security Testing Contracts in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 573 716
Rank change year-on-year +115 +143 -107
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 84 67 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.14% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.15% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 45 46
10th Percentile £498 £468 £463
25th Percentile £600 £555 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £700
90th Percentile £823 £821 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Static 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 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static 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 Static Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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 70 £675 +8.00% 14
South West +15 7 £600 -4.00% 3
North West +26 2 £663 +17.78% 2
North of England +25 2 £663 +32.50% 4
South East +19 2 £650 -13.33% 6
Midlands +14 1 £750 +3.45% 2
West Midlands +7 1 £750 +3.45% 2
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static 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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.95%) AWS
2 22 (26.19%) Azure
3 14 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) Miro
5 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.38%) PaaS
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.19%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) HTTP
2 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.33%) GitLab
3 4 (4.76%) JIRA
4 3 (3.57%) Burp Suite
4 3 (3.57%) Snyk
5 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 46 (54.76%) Finance
2 11 (13.10%) Banking
2 11 (13.10%) Financial Institution
3 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Front Office
5 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.76%) Retail
6 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 24 (28.57%) Security Manager
1 24 (28.57%) Security Project Manager
2 18 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 17 (20.24%) Architect
3 17 (20.24%) Security Architect
4 14 (16.67%) Applications Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 13 (15.48%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 10 (11.90%) IT Manager
6 10 (11.90%) IT Project Manager
6 10 (11.90%) IT Security Manager
6 10 (11.90%) IT Security Project Manager
7 9 (10.71%) Senior
8 8 (9.52%) CISSP Manager
8 8 (9.52%) Contracts Manager
8 8 (9.52%) IT Services Manager
8 8 (9.52%) Service Security Manager
9 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
1 4 (4.76%) Java EE
1 4 (4.76%) REST
1 4 (4.76%) SOAP
1 4 (4.76%) Spring
1 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (1.19%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.19%) JSON
3 1 (1.19%) RESTful
3 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.57%) PMI
3 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
1 5 (5.95%) Windows
2 2 (2.38%) zOS
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (84.52%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 43 (51.19%) Application Security
3 30 (35.71%) Security Testing
4 28 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 27 (32.14%) Vulnerability Management
6 25 (29.76%) Threat Modelling
7 23 (27.38%) DevOps
8 21 (25.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
9 19 (22.62%) DevSecOps
9 19 (22.62%) Project Management
10 18 (21.43%) Information Security
11 14 (16.67%) Project Delivery
12 13 (15.48%) Agile
13 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 11 (13.10%) SDLC
15 10 (11.90%) Security Architecture
15 10 (11.90%) Security Operations
15 10 (11.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.90%) Java
2 6 (7.14%) C++
3 5 (5.95%) Bash
3 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (3.57%) Python
6 2 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) CISSP
2 19 (22.62%) CISM
3 17 (20.24%) CISA
4 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CCNP
6 1 (1.19%) CEH
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) CRISC
6 1 (1.19%) Degree
6 1 (1.19%) GCIA
6 1 (1.19%) GCIH
6 1 (1.19%) GIAC
6 1 (1.19%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.33%) QA
3 6 (7.14%) NIST
4 3 (3.57%) GDPR
5 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
1 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (17.86%) Terraform
2 14 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (1.19%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.19%) Nessus
5 1 (1.19%) Nmap
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Qualys
3 4 (4.76%) Splunk
3 4 (4.76%) VMware
4 3 (3.57%) Checkmarx
4 3 (3.57%) Veracode
5 2 (2.38%) F5
6 1 (1.19%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.19%) Okta
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro