Application Security Contracts in Cardiff

Application Security (AppSec)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 41 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.94% 1.49% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.69% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £644 - £655
25th Percentile £652 £463 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £475 £750
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -36.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £679 £488 £775
90th Percentile £686 - -
South Wales median daily rate £666 £475 £775
% change year-on-year +40.26% -38.71% +34.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Application Security 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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 296 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.06% 88.10% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 233 328
10th Percentile £190 £201 £261
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £542
90th Percentile £644 £630 £650
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Cardiff

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Cardiff

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode