Secure Coding Contracts

Secure Code Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 613 650
Rank change year-on-year +124 +37 -98
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 93 90 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 61 138
10th Percentile £455 £375 £404
25th Percentile £550 £481 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -2.09% +16.16%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £730 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £523
% change year-on-year +18.18% +5.14% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73.80
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £80.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Hourly rate trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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 +118 88 £650 +13.04% 39
UK excluding London +67 51 £650 +18.18% 16
London +105 40 £650 +2.97% 24
Work from Home +112 39 £631 +13.43% 19
South East +33 18 £675 +18.94% 3
South West +31 16 £650 +62.50% 4
North of England +34 13 £622 +11.77% 4
Yorkshire - 10 £625 -
Scotland +33 3 £621 +27.33%
North West +14 3 £463 -15.91% 4
East of England +14 1 £675 - 1

Secure Coding
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 10 (10.75%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (47.31%) AWS
2 31 (33.33%) Azure
3 14 (15.05%) GitHub
4 13 (13.98%) GCP
5 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.60%) Kong
5 8 (8.60%) Serverless
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.45%) Apigee
7 6 (6.45%) Azure API Management
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Batch
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Storage
7 6 (6.45%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.45%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.05%) Firewall
2 11 (11.83%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.68%) DNS
3 9 (9.68%) HTTP
4 8 (8.60%) Network Security
4 8 (8.60%) VPN
5 4 (4.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.15%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (2.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.15%) SSL
7 1 (1.08%) DHCP
7 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.08%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.08%) SAN
7 1 (1.08%) SCCP
7 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.28%) Oracle Database
3 16 (17.20%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (7.53%) Big Data
5 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (6.45%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.45%) OLTP
7 5 (5.38%) GIS
7 5 (5.38%) Spatial Data
8 4 (4.30%) MySQL
9 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (1.08%) Redis
11 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Git
2 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.75%) CircleCI
3 10 (10.75%) JIRA
4 9 (9.68%) GitLab
4 9 (9.68%) Travis CI
5 8 (8.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (6.45%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (2.15%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.08%) Darcs
8 1 (1.08%) Gradle
8 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.08%) Maven
8 1 (1.08%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.08%) Mockito
8 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (20.43%) Finance
2 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.23%) Electronics
7 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Retail
7 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.15%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (54.84%) Developer
2 15 (16.13%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (15.05%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 11 (11.83%) Architect
4 11 (11.83%) Security Architect
4 11 (11.83%) Security Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Applications Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) GIS Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.30%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior
9 3 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Consultant
9 3 (3.23%) Lead
9 3 (3.23%) Spatial Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.28%) AngularJS
2 16 (17.20%) JSON
2 16 (17.20%) XML
3 15 (16.13%) React
4 13 (13.98%) Spring
5 9 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (9.68%) YAML
6 8 (8.60%) Web Services
7 6 (6.45%) .NET
7 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.45%) HTML
8 5 (5.38%) CSS
8 5 (5.38%) REST
9 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.30%) RESTful
10 3 (3.23%) Flask
11 2 (2.15%) Android SDK
11 2 (2.15%) Node.js
11 2 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (2.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.15%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.15%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.08%) CBDC
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Android
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Debian
4 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.14%) DevOps
2 37 (39.78%) Agile
3 31 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 30 (32.26%) Unit Testing
5 26 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (24.73%) Migration
7 22 (23.66%) Data Migration
8 21 (22.58%) Project Management
8 21 (22.58%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.28%) Architectural Design
9 17 (18.28%) Scrum
10 16 (17.20%) Change Management
10 16 (17.20%) CI/CD
10 16 (17.20%) Full Stack Development
10 16 (17.20%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (17.20%) Threat Modelling
11 15 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (16.13%) DevSecOps
11 15 (16.13%) Programme Management
11 15 (16.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.94%) Python
2 31 (33.33%) Java
3 20 (21.51%) JavaScript
4 18 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 18 (19.35%) SQL
5 16 (17.20%) PL/SQL
6 13 (13.98%) C
7 10 (10.75%) C#
8 8 (8.60%) Bash
9 6 (6.45%) C++
10 3 (3.23%) Go
11 2 (2.15%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) CISSP
4 8 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) Degree
6 5 (5.38%) CEH
6 5 (5.38%) CISM
6 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.23%) CSSLP
7 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.15%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.08%) CLAS
9 1 (1.08%) GCIA
9 1 (1.08%) GSEC
9 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.88%) QA
2 9 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.60%) NIST
4 3 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.23%) GPG13
4 3 (3.23%) NCSC
4 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.15%) COBIT
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Terraform
2 17 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.98%) Grafana
3 13 (13.98%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.75%) Ansible
5 9 (9.68%) Kibana
5 9 (9.68%) logstash
5 9 (9.68%) Progress Chef
5 9 (9.68%) Puppet
6 8 (8.60%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.15%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) CASB
8 1 (1.08%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Oracle
2 9 (9.68%) Splunk
3 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.45%) Qualys
5 5 (5.38%) ESRI
6 4 (4.30%) Google
6 4 (4.30%) SAP
7 2 (2.15%) Checkmarx
7 2 (2.15%) F5
7 2 (2.15%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.15%) Veracode
7 2 (2.15%) VMware
8 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.08%) Remedy