Application Security Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Application Security (AppSec)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 3.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Essex median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Application Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 11 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 92.31% 84.62% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 18
10th Percentile £226 - £104
25th Percentile £300 £315 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £317 £563
Median % change year-on-year +44.55% -43.73% +11.39%
75th Percentile £515 £320 £600
90th Percentile £526 £321 £627
Essex median daily rate £375 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +15.38% -27.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 18
10th Percentile £31.90 - £41.41
25th Percentile £52.19 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -45.98% -11.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 - £80.00
Essex median hourly rate £22.00 £117.50 £34.08
% change year-on-year -81.28% +244.83% -21.90%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Application Security job vacancy trend in Basildon

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Application Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Application Security

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Application Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Application Security

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Google