Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 464 579
Rank change year-on-year +123 +115 -111
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 60 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.12% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.13% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 21 18
10th Percentile £530 £425 £560
25th Percentile £600 £500 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £800 £725 £738
90th Percentile £836 £835 £750
England median daily rate £650 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,405 23,301 35,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.53% 90.84% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,053 16,834 26,090
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 268 416
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.83 £39.21 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.04% +9.68% +11.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.06 £50.15
90th Percentile £66.78 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 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
East London +7 11 £650 -10.34%
Central London +36 1 £900 +46.94% 2
Dynamic Application Security Testing
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) Miro
5 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.67%) MySQL
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 41 (68.33%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Financial Institution
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Front Office
6 4 (6.67%) Retail
7 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Project Manager
1 22 (36.67%) Security Manager
1 22 (36.67%) Security Project Manager
2 14 (23.33%) Architect
2 14 (23.33%) Security Architect
3 13 (21.67%) Applications Architect
3 13 (21.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 13 (21.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 8 (13.33%) CISSP Manager
4 8 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 8 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
4 8 (13.33%) IT Security Manager
4 8 (13.33%) IT Security Project Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Contracts Manager
5 7 (11.67%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Service Security Manager
6 6 (10.00%) Information Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Information Security Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (6.67%) Java EE
1 4 (6.67%) REST
1 4 (6.67%) SOAP
1 4 (6.67%) Spring
1 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.67%) JSON
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.00%) PMI
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) IoT
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 30 (50.00%) Application Security
3 22 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 18 (30.00%) Information Security
5 18 (30.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 18 (30.00%) Project Management
6 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
6 17 (28.33%) DevSecOps
6 17 (28.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
8 14 (23.33%) DevOps
8 14 (23.33%) Project Delivery
9 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 9 (15.00%) Agile
11 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (11.67%) Secure Coding
11 7 (11.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 6 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Java
2 6 (10.00%) C++
3 5 (8.33%) Bash
3 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) CISSP
2 18 (30.00%) CISM
3 17 (28.33%) CISA
4 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) CEH
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) CRISC
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) GCIA
5 1 (1.67%) GCIH
5 1 (1.67%) GIAC
5 1 (1.67%) GSEC
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Nessus
3 1 (1.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Checkmarx
2 3 (5.00%) Veracode
3 2 (3.33%) Qualys
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) Trend Micro