Static Application Security Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 402 497
Rank change year-on-year +54 +95 0
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 21 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.053% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.060% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 8
10th Percentile £480 £470 £600
25th Percentile £594 £525 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +1.82% +45.50%
75th Percentile £685 £738 £740
90th Percentile £788 - £764
UK median daily rate £643 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -1.15% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Static 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Static Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
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 Static Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Midlands +10 10 £624 -14.00%
West Midlands +8 10 £624 -14.00%
Scotland +32 8 £550 +10.00% 1
South West - 2 £800 -
South East - 1 £650 -
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static Application Security Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) IaaS
1 10 (47.62%) PaaS
1 10 (47.62%) SaaS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) YAML
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) PKI
2 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 13 (61.90%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 11 (52.38%) Containerisation
4 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
5 10 (47.62%) Deployment Automation
5 10 (47.62%) Functional Testing
5 10 (47.62%) Non-Functional Testing
5 10 (47.62%) Performance Analysis
5 10 (47.62%) Release Management
6 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
7 6 (28.57%) Email Filtering
7 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
7 6 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (28.57%) Security Operations
7 6 (28.57%) SIEM
7 6 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 4 (19.05%) MCSE
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Ansible
1 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) SCCM
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Qualys
2 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 3 (14.29%) F5
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft