Application Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 309 330
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing Application Security 74 148 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.70% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 106 132
10th Percentile £489 £497 £427
25th Percentile £566 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £616 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +7.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £701 £838 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +32.50% +62.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +12 27 £650 +7.26% 12
South East 0 26 £513 -26.79% 14
North West +13 13 £663 +9.41% 5
Yorkshire +28 12 £615 +6.96% 6
Midlands -10 8 £650 +9.24% 5
South West +22 7 £400 -38.46% 6
West Midlands -5 7 £650 +9.24% 5
Scotland +40 6 £623 +24.50% 1
Wales +17 2 £666 +40.26% 1
North East +9 2 £625 -26.23% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £567 -6.44%
East of England 0 1 - - 3
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.43%) AWS
2 20 (27.03%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.11%) GCP
4 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.76%) Azure API Management
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (6.76%) CloudFront
5 5 (6.76%) Serverless
5 5 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.35%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) Network Security
2 7 (9.46%) Firewall
3 6 (8.11%) Wireless
4 5 (6.76%) DNS
4 5 (6.76%) HTTPS
4 5 (6.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.05%) Data Vault
3 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Robot Framework
1 8 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (9.46%) Git
2 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.11%) Gradle
3 6 (8.11%) Maven
3 6 (8.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.05%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.35%) AppScan
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) MSI
6 1 (1.35%) rollup.js
6 1 (1.35%) Subversion
6 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Retail
4 4 (5.41%) Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Legal
5 2 (2.70%) Automotive
5 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Architect
2 18 (24.32%) Security Architect
3 10 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Consultant
3 10 (13.51%) Security Consultant
4 8 (10.81%) Security Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 6 (8.11%) Penetration Tester
5 6 (8.11%) Tester
6 5 (6.76%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Security Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Site Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Applications Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
7 4 (5.41%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) OAuth
2 5 (6.76%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.76%) OAuth2
2 5 (6.76%) SAML
3 3 (4.05%) .NET
3 3 (4.05%) JSON
3 3 (4.05%) OpenID
3 3 (4.05%) REST
3 3 (4.05%) SOAP
3 3 (4.05%) XML
4 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.35%) CSS
5 1 (1.35%) Enzyme
5 1 (1.35%) Jest
5 1 (1.35%) Next.js
5 1 (1.35%) React
5 1 (1.35%) Redux
5 1 (1.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.16%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.16%) PKI
3 8 (10.81%) Mobile App
4 7 (9.46%) Operational Technology
5 4 (5.41%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.05%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.35%) FMCG
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.84%) Windows
2 14 (18.92%) Linux
3 10 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (8.11%) Unix
6 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.24%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (29.73%) OWASP
3 21 (28.38%) Agile
3 21 (28.38%) Identity Access Management
4 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
5 18 (24.32%) Information Security
6 16 (21.62%) Cloud Security
7 15 (20.27%) Penetration Testing
8 14 (18.92%) DevOps
9 13 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (17.57%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (16.22%) DevSecOps
10 12 (16.22%) Security Testing
10 12 (16.22%) Service Management
11 11 (14.86%) Risk Management
11 11 (14.86%) Security Architecture
12 10 (13.51%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.51%) Threat Modelling
13 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (12.16%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.73%) Python
2 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.46%) Bash
3 7 (9.46%) C++
3 7 (9.46%) Ruby
3 7 (9.46%) Shell Script
4 6 (8.11%) Groovy
4 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.76%) C#
6 3 (4.05%) SQL
7 1 (1.35%) C
7 1 (1.35%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) Perl
7 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
2 7 (9.46%) CEH
2 7 (9.46%) CISSP
2 7 (9.46%) CREST Certified
2 7 (9.46%) Degree
2 7 (9.46%) ISACA
2 7 (9.46%) OSCP
3 6 (8.11%) CISA
3 6 (8.11%) CISM
3 6 (8.11%) GIAC
3 6 (8.11%) GPEN
3 6 (8.11%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.11%) MBA
3 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) SANS
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.97%) NIST
2 10 (13.51%) COBIT
3 9 (12.16%) GDPR
4 7 (9.46%) RMADS
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 21 (28.38%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.22%) Docker
3 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Terraform
2 16 (21.62%) Ansible
3 8 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.05%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.70%) Grafana
5 2 (2.70%) Graylog
5 2 (2.70%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.70%) Nagios
5 2 (2.70%) Nessus
5 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Nmap
6 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.35%) Puppet
6 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) WebInspect
6 1 (1.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) VMware
3 3 (4.05%) Bloomberg
3 3 (4.05%) Refinitiv
4 2 (2.70%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Adobe
5 1 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Veracode