Application Security Contracts in Belfast

Application Security (AppSec)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Application Security 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 2.41% - 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
County Antrim median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 106 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.76% 73.61% 77.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 56 59
10th Percentile £200 £161 £159
25th Percentile £325 £209 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +23.44% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £481
90th Percentile £610 £675 £640
County Antrim median daily rate £438 £494 £400
% change year-on-year -11.39% +23.44% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile - £12.25 -
25th Percentile £14.78 £13.59 -
Median hourly rate £19.03 £22.56 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +62.19% +26.74%
75th Percentile £27.63 £24.18 £16.50
90th Percentile £41.44 - £17.66
County Antrim median hourly rate £19.25 £23.59 £13.91
% change year-on-year -18.40% +69.59% +11.28%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Belfast

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Belfast

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Account Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle