Application Security Contracts in the South West

Application Security (AppSec)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 148 163 158
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -32
Contract jobs citing Application Security 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.11% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.12% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £280 £530 £561
25th Percentile £400 £575 £648
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £706
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.96% +26.68%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £775
90th Percentile £630 - £865
England median daily rate £606 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -10.22% +12.50% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the South West

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the South West

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the South West

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire 0 3 £613 +11.36% 1
Somerset - 1 £200 -
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Compliance Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Market Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Market Data Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Market Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Market Data Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Red Team
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Refinitiv
1 1 (25.00%) SAP