Secure Coding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secure Code Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 410 455
Rank change year-on-year +63 +45 -58
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 47 36 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 28 32
10th Percentile £456 £375 £400
25th Percentile £622 £481 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £553 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +5.61% +8.42%
75th Percentile £688 £603 £623
90th Percentile £706 £664 £685
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +13.04% - +16.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Secure Coding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South West +21 15 £650 +62.50% 4
North of England +35 14 £622 +10.48% 3
South East +29 14 £675 +17.39% 16
Yorkshire - 11 £625 -
Scotland +35 3 £621 +27.33%
North West +11 3 £463 -17.85% 1
East of England +10 1 £675 - 3
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (19.15%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub
4 10 (21.28%) GCP
5 9 (19.15%) Kong
6 6 (12.77%) Apigee
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) DNS
1 9 (19.15%) Firewall
1 9 (19.15%) HTTP
1 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
1 9 (19.15%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) BIG-IP
2 3 (6.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (6.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (6.38%) SSL
3 2 (4.26%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.66%) Oracle Database
2 13 (27.66%) Oracle Database 11g
3 9 (19.15%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.26%) GIS
4 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.26%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) Spatial Data
5 1 (2.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (19.15%) CircleCI
3 9 (19.15%) GitLab
3 9 (19.15%) JIRA
3 9 (19.15%) Travis CI
4 2 (4.26%) Android Studio
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (70.21%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Full Stack Developer
2 13 (27.66%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Android Developer
5 2 (4.26%) GIS Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior
5 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Payments Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) AngularJS
1 13 (27.66%) React
2 11 (23.40%) Spring
2 11 (23.40%) XML
3 9 (19.15%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (19.15%) JSON
3 9 (19.15%) YAML
4 4 (8.51%) HTML
5 3 (6.38%) CSS
6 2 (4.26%) Android SDK
6 2 (4.26%) Flask
6 2 (4.26%) jQuery
6 2 (4.26%) Node.js
6 2 (4.26%) REST
6 2 (4.26%) RESTful
7 1 (2.13%) OLE
7 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (74.47%) DevOps
2 25 (53.19%) Unit Testing
3 23 (48.94%) Agile
4 20 (42.55%) Clean Code
4 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (42.55%) Project Management
5 16 (34.04%) Software Engineering
6 13 (27.66%) Architectural Design
6 13 (27.66%) Data Migration
6 13 (27.66%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (27.66%) Migration
6 13 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (27.66%) Software Testing
7 11 (23.40%) Change Management
7 11 (23.40%) OO
7 11 (23.40%) OOP
7 11 (23.40%) Programme Management
7 11 (23.40%) Software Architecture
7 11 (23.40%) Task Automation
8 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Java
3 15 (31.91%) SQL
4 13 (27.66%) PL/SQL
5 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (23.40%) C
7 9 (19.15%) Bash
7 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
8 3 (6.38%) ActionScript
9 2 (4.26%) C#
9 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (4.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (2.13%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (42.55%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Kubernetes
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Ansible
2 9 (19.15%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (19.15%) Grafana
2 9 (19.15%) Kibana
2 9 (19.15%) logstash
2 9 (19.15%) Progress Chef
2 9 (19.15%) Prometheus
2 9 (19.15%) Puppet
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle
2 9 (19.15%) Splunk
3 3 (6.38%) F5
4 2 (4.26%) ESRI
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) VMware