Application Security Contracts in Berkshire

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 84 106
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing Application Security 14 40 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 2.02% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.27% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £523 - £400
25th Percentile £613 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -16.33% +11.36%
75th Percentile £675 £594 £675
90th Percentile £709 £650 £681
South East median daily rate £650 £513 £700
% change year-on-year +26.83% -26.79% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +19 8 £638 +24.39% 7
Slough - 1 £650 - 3
Windsor - 1 £575 -
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP ERP
1 3 (21.43%) SAP GRC
1 3 (21.43%) SAP MDG
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (21.43%) NGFW
2 3 (21.43%) SSL
3 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless Security
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (42.86%) Security Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Consultant
3 5 (35.71%) Security Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) SAP Security Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Head of Security
5 2 (14.29%) Head of Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
1 3 (21.43%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Data Security
3 5 (35.71%) Information Security
3 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) OWASP
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 3 (21.43%) ERP
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) SAP Security
5 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) ISACA
4 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) COBIT
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk