Application Security Contracts in Central London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 137 175
Rank change year-on-year +19 +38 -30
Contract jobs citing Application Security 15 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 0.91% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.00% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 13
10th Percentile - £469 £517
25th Percentile £385 £500 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £675 £560
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +20.54% +1.82%
75th Percentile £589 £814 £590
90th Percentile £683 £820 £664
London median daily rate £600 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -14.29% +14.29% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,189 3,514 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.39% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 2,377 3,194
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 41
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.75
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
City of London +33 15 £488 -30.36% 2
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) IPv4
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) AppScan
1 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Market Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Market Data Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Security Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) HTML5
1 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) CentOS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 4 (26.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 4 (26.67%) Batch Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (20.00%) Information Security
3 3 (20.00%) Key Management
3 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Release Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Database Security
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) VBScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Graylog
2 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Veracode