Application Security Contracts in Manchester

Application Security (AppSec)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 104 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -40
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.14% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £583 £444 £479
25th Percentile £594 £627 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £694 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +11.00% +6.16%
75th Percentile £631 £725 £656
90th Percentile £643 £750 £686
North West median daily rate £663 £606 £588
% change year-on-year +9.41% +3.15% -0.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,223 1,641 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.74% 90.96% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 1,200 1,819
10th Percentile £323 £318 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.44 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.60%
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £24.90 £35.02 £23.06
% change year-on-year -28.90% +51.88% +27.27%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Manchester

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Manchester

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Red Team
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap