Application Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 263 246 338
Rank change year-on-year -17 +92 -21
Contract jobs citing Application Security 84 237 314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.94% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.05% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 187 227
10th Percentile £500 £490 £426
25th Percentile £540 £600 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £657 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +7.18% +16.67%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £822 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41.00
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £49.00
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +32.50% +62.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Application Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Application Security over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Application Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.19%) IBM Notes
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.19%) SAS
1 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.29%) Azure
2 25 (29.76%) AWS
3 16 (19.05%) GCP
4 8 (9.52%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 5 (5.95%) Azure API Management
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.95%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.38%) Bitrise
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Network Security
2 6 (7.14%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) VPN
3 5 (5.95%) DNS
4 3 (3.57%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.57%) Wireless
5 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.19%) WAN
5 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.95%) GitLab
3 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) Appium
4 2 (2.38%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.38%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) git-flow
4 2 (2.38%) XCTest
4 2 (2.38%) XCUITest
5 1 (1.19%) rollup.js
5 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 23 (27.38%) Finance
2 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Banking
5 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (7.14%) Retail
8 4 (4.76%) Automotive
9 2 (2.38%) Electronics
9 2 (2.38%) Publishing
10 1 (1.19%) Back Office
10 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.19%) Legal
10 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (26.19%) Architect
2 13 (15.48%) Security Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (13.10%) Consultant
5 10 (11.90%) Security Consultant
6 8 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Senior
7 6 (7.14%) Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Security Manager
8 5 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Information Security Consultant
9 4 (4.76%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Vulnerability Manager
10 3 (3.57%) Penetration Tester
10 3 (3.57%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) SailPoint
2 8 (9.52%) OAuth
3 5 (5.95%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.95%) OAuth2
3 5 (5.95%) REST
3 5 (5.95%) SAML
4 4 (4.76%) .NET
5 3 (3.57%) JSON
5 3 (3.57%) OpenID
5 3 (3.57%) SOAP
5 3 (3.57%) XML
6 2 (2.38%) CSS
6 2 (2.38%) React Native
6 2 (2.38%) SwiftUI
6 2 (2.38%) UIKit
7 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.19%) Enzyme
7 1 (1.19%) Jest
7 1 (1.19%) Redux
7 1 (1.19%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.38%) IoT
5 2 (2.38%) PKI
5 2 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) FMCG
6 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.19%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Android
3 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 34 (40.48%) DevOps
3 29 (34.52%) Cloud Security
4 25 (29.76%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (27.38%) Security Testing
6 19 (22.62%) Information Security
6 19 (22.62%) SDLC
6 19 (22.62%) Static Application Security Testing
7 18 (21.43%) DevSecOps
8 17 (20.24%) Containerisation
8 17 (20.24%) Penetration Testing
9 16 (19.05%) Agile
9 16 (19.05%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 15 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (15.48%) High Availability
11 13 (15.48%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (15.48%) Migration
11 13 (15.48%) Threat Modelling
12 12 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.14%) Python
2 6 (7.14%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) C#
3 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.57%) C++
5 2 (2.38%) PHP
5 2 (2.38%) Swift
6 1 (1.19%) Bash
6 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.14%) CISSP
1 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) CISM
3 3 (3.57%) CEH
3 3 (3.57%) CREST Certified
3 3 (3.57%) CRISC
3 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) GIAC
3 3 (3.57%) GPEN
3 3 (3.57%) OSCP
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.19%) CAPM
4 1 (1.19%) CISA
4 1 (1.19%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) MBA
4 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) NIST
2 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.38%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (2.38%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (2.38%) COBIT
4 2 (2.38%) QA
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) GLBA
5 1 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.19%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Active Directory
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Terraform
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) SCCM
5 1 (1.19%) CASB
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Graylog
5 1 (1.19%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.19%) Nagios
5 1 (1.19%) Nmap
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
1 12 (14.29%) CyberArk
1 12 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) Checkmarx
3 3 (3.57%) Veracode
4 2 (2.38%) Apple
4 2 (2.38%) Qualys
4 2 (2.38%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.38%) SAP
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
5 1 (1.19%) Adobe
5 1 (1.19%) Axway
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco
5 1 (1.19%) Lotus
5 1 (1.19%) McAfee
5 1 (1.19%) Remedy
5 1 (1.19%) Siebel
5 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro