Dynamic Application Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic 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 306 380 550
Rank change year-on-year +74 +170 +6
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 16 19 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.10% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 29
10th Percentile £504 £525 £461
25th Percentile £550 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £650
90th Percentile £655 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £612 £675 £613
% change year-on-year -9.33% +10.20% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Dynamic 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Dynamic Application Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Dynamic Application Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Akamai
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Consultant
1 10 (62.50%) Information Security Consultant
1 10 (62.50%) Security Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) Security Technical Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.25%) gRPC
1 1 (6.25%) J2EE
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Solaris
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 13 (81.25%) Security Testing
3 12 (75.00%) Application Security
3 12 (75.00%) DevOps
4 11 (68.75%) Agile
4 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
4 11 (68.75%) DevSecOps
4 11 (68.75%) Information Security
4 11 (68.75%) Threat Modelling
4 11 (68.75%) Waterfall
5 10 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (62.50%) Project Planning
5 10 (62.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 10 (62.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (50.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (50.00%) OWASP
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (18.75%) SDLC
8 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
8 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) C++
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) Perl
1 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) Ruby
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISM
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) CRISC
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
1 1 (6.25%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 2 (12.50%) Qualys
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Micro Focus
3 1 (6.25%) Netsparker
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype
3 1 (6.25%) Synopsys
3 1 (6.25%) Tripwire
3 1 (6.25%) Veracode