Interactive Application Security Testing Contracts

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Interactive Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Interactive Application Security Testing 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 558 690 849
Rank change year-on-year +132 +159 -151
Contract jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 21 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.007% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.008% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 7
10th Percentile £475 £578 £574
25th Percentile £597 £600 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £823 £738 £744
90th Percentile £894 - £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £725 -
% change year-on-year -31.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Interactive 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +132 21 £765 +13.33% 5
London +118 18 £765 +33.04% 1
UK excluding London +52 3 £500 -31.03% 3
South West - 3 £500 - 2
Work from Home +114 2 £500 -31.03% 2

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Snyk
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Front Office
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Applications Architect
1 13 (61.90%) Architect
1 13 (61.90%) Security Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Information Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Information Security Architect
3 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) ArcSight Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) RESTful
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 14 (66.67%) Application Security
3 14 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
4 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
5 12 (57.14%) Information Security
6 11 (52.38%) DevSecOps
7 9 (42.86%) Agile
7 9 (42.86%) DevOps
8 7 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (33.33%) Secure Coding
9 6 (28.57%) Security Architecture
9 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
10 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
10 5 (23.81%) Technology Roadmap
11 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
11 3 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C++
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Bicep
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) CISSP
2 6 (28.57%) CISA
2 6 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) CEH
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) GCIA
4 1 (4.76%) GCIH
4 1 (4.76%) GIAC
4 1 (4.76%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) ArcSight
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Veracode