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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Application Security 9 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.76% 0.41% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.48% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £525 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £584 -
90th Percentile £735 £624 -
South East median daily rate £498 £581 £700
% change year-on-year -14.41% -16.96% +21.74%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 1,459 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.70% 86.18% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 774 993
10th Percentile £350 £321 £313
25th Percentile £420 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 74 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.70 £18.30
25th Percentile £17.40 £41.50 £44.10
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £63.00 £71.41 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +23 5 £613 +19.51% 4
Windsor - 1 £575 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Gradle
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) HTML CSS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) HTML Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (11.11%) JSP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Ajax
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Axis
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) DWR
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JDBC
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) JSP
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) Servlets
2 1 (11.11%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
1 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CCSP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) PSD2
3 1 (11.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Qualys
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk