Application Security Contracts in England

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 337 284 362
Rank change year-on-year -53 +78 +13
Contract jobs citing Application Security 207 457 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.00% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 325 380
10th Percentile £486 £488 £449
25th Percentile £536 £540 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +12.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £700
90th Percentile £780 £841 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +47.22% +46.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -67 106 £600 -14.29% 45
South East +47 60 £513 -26.79% 18
North of England +17 23 £650 +4.00% 16
Yorkshire +24 12 £615 +6.96% 7
North West +14 9 £676 +8.16% 6
Midlands -9 8 £650 +13.04% 7
West Midlands +2 7 £650 +11.11% 7
South West +15 4 £600 -7.69% 6
North East +14 2 £625 -26.23% 3
East of England +4 2 £850 +21.43% 5
East Midlands +17 1 £567 +8.00%
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.48%) nginx
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.12%) SaaS
2 46 (22.22%) PaaS
3 45 (21.74%) Azure
3 45 (21.74%) IaaS
4 35 (16.91%) AWS
5 21 (10.14%) GCP
6 18 (8.70%) Serverless
7 12 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.38%) GitHub
10 6 (2.90%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.42%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.42%) CloudFront
12 4 (1.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.94%) 5G
1 33 (15.94%) Broadband
2 19 (9.18%) Network Security
3 17 (8.21%) Firewall
4 10 (4.83%) DNS
5 7 (3.38%) HTTPS
6 6 (2.90%) VPN
6 6 (2.90%) Wireless
7 5 (2.42%) DHCP
7 5 (2.42%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.42%) WAN
8 4 (1.93%) IPv4
9 3 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.97%) HTTP
10 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.48%) FTP
11 1 (0.48%) Internet
11 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.90%) MySQL
3 5 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.93%) Metadata
5 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.48%) DB2
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (3.86%) Robot Framework
3 7 (3.38%) JIRA
3 7 (3.38%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.90%) Burp Suite
5 5 (2.42%) GitLab
5 5 (2.42%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.93%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.45%) Git
8 2 (0.97%) Appium
8 2 (0.97%) git-flow
8 2 (0.97%) XCTest
8 2 (0.97%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.48%) Moq
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) rollup.js
9 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 39 (18.84%) Finance
2 33 (15.94%) Law
2 33 (15.94%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (15.46%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.28%) Banking
6 11 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Retail
8 6 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.93%) Legal
10 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.48%) Back Office
12 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (24.64%) Architect
2 41 (19.81%) Penetration Tester
2 41 (19.81%) Tester
3 39 (18.84%) Security Architect
4 34 (16.43%) Security Specialist
5 33 (15.94%) Security Penetration Tester
5 33 (15.94%) Security Tester
5 33 (15.94%) Testing Specialist
6 24 (11.59%) Security Engineer
7 23 (11.11%) Consultant
7 23 (11.11%) Security Consultant
8 19 (9.18%) Applications Engineer
9 18 (8.70%) Senior
10 12 (5.80%) Analyst
11 11 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Project Manager
12 10 (4.83%) Senior Architect
12 10 (4.83%) Senior Security Architect
13 9 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.94%) Web Services
2 13 (6.28%) SailPoint
3 11 (5.31%) OAuth
4 8 (3.86%) SAML
5 6 (2.90%) CSS
5 6 (2.90%) OpenID
6 5 (2.42%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.42%) HTML
6 5 (2.42%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.42%) REST
7 4 (1.93%) .NET
7 4 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.93%) HTML5
7 4 (1.93%) JSON
7 4 (1.93%) RESTful
8 3 (1.45%) SOAP
8 3 (1.45%) XML
9 2 (0.97%) React Native
9 2 (0.97%) SwiftUI
9 2 (0.97%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 55 (26.57%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.25%) PKI
3 13 (6.28%) IoT
4 10 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.83%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.38%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.45%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) W3C
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.48%) FMCG
10 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.46%) Windows
2 17 (8.21%) Linux
3 13 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.42%) Unix
6 4 (1.93%) CentOS
6 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.97%) Android
7 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.00%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (36.71%) Security Testing
3 60 (28.99%) Penetration Testing
4 54 (26.09%) Cloud Security
5 52 (25.12%) OWASP
6 48 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (19.81%) CI/CD
8 37 (17.87%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (17.39%) Information Security
9 36 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
10 34 (16.43%) DevOps
10 34 (16.43%) DevSecOps
11 33 (15.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 32 (15.46%) Security Architecture
12 32 (15.46%) Static Application Security Testing
13 31 (14.98%) Agile
14 26 (12.56%) Deployment Automation
15 25 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (12.08%) SDLC
16 24 (11.59%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.53%) Python
2 25 (12.08%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.28%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.80%) C++
5 10 (4.83%) SQL
6 7 (3.38%) C#
6 7 (3.38%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.90%) Java
8 5 (2.42%) Bash
8 5 (2.42%) PHP
9 4 (1.93%) C
9 4 (1.93%) Go
9 4 (1.93%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.93%) VBScript
10 3 (1.45%) Perl
11 2 (0.97%) Ruby
11 2 (0.97%) Swift
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 42 (20.29%) GIAC
2 42 (20.29%) OSCP
3 41 (19.81%) CREST Certified
4 40 (19.32%) GPEN
5 35 (16.91%) SANS
6 14 (6.76%) Degree
6 14 (6.76%) SC Cleared
7 13 (6.28%) CISSP
8 10 (4.83%) CISM
9 9 (4.35%) CEH
10 8 (3.86%) ISACA
11 7 (3.38%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.38%) CISA
11 7 (3.38%) Master's Degree
11 7 (3.38%) MBA
12 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.97%) GCIA
13 2 (0.97%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (21.26%) GDPR
2 39 (18.84%) NIST
3 36 (17.39%) PCI DSS
4 34 (16.43%) NCSC
5 11 (5.31%) COBIT
6 9 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (3.38%) RMADS
9 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.93%) QA
10 1 (0.48%) GLBA
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.48%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.83%) Docker
3 8 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) IAG
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (12.56%) Terraform
2 15 (7.25%) Ansible
3 8 (3.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.45%) Nessus
5 2 (0.97%) Puppet
5 2 (0.97%) SCCM
5 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.48%) CASB
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.48%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Graylog
6 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.48%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.48%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.48%) WebInspect
6 1 (0.48%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (15.94%) Virgin Media
2 24 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.80%) CyberArk
4 11 (5.31%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.35%) VMware
6 7 (3.38%) Splunk
7 5 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.42%) Veracode
8 4 (1.93%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.45%) Cisco
9 3 (1.45%) Oracle
9 3 (1.45%) Qualys
9 3 (1.45%) SAP
10 2 (0.97%) Apple
10 2 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.97%) Okta
10 2 (0.97%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.97%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv