Application Security Contracts in the City of London

Application Security (AppSec)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 147 173
Rank change year-on-year +35 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Application Security 15 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.85% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.93% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 11
10th Percentile - £463 £530
25th Percentile £385 £500 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £589 £820 £595
90th Percentile £683 - £680
Central London median daily rate £488 £675 £560
% change year-on-year -27.78% +20.54% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 3,346 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,259 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £806 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the City of London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the City of London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the City of London

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) IPv4
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) AppScan
1 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Market Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Market Data Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Security Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) HTML5
1 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) CentOS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 4 (26.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 4 (26.67%) Batch Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (20.00%) Information Security
3 3 (20.00%) Key Management
3 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Release Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Database Security
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) VBScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Graylog
2 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Veracode