Application Security Contract Job Trends in Central London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 111 122
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Application Security 10 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.48% 0.68% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.74% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £425 £525 -
25th Percentile £433 £563 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -25.49%
75th Percentile £581 £695 £570
90th Percentile £623 £845 £680
London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,870 1,885 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.05% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,174 1,653
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £772 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 27
10th Percentile £19.75 £21.85 £18.16
25th Percentile £24.85 £33.13 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.00 £40.92
90th Percentile £55.30 £61.40 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Central London

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Security

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Central London over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Security

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 17 February 2026. 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 -4 10 £525 -19.23% 15
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Mendix
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) CocoaPods
1 2 (20.00%) Crashlytics
1 2 (20.00%) fastlane
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AVFoundation
1 2 (20.00%) Core Animation
1 2 (20.00%) Core Data
1 2 (20.00%) RxSwift
1 2 (20.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Animation
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (30.00%) Threat Management
1 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) iOS Development
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) GIAC
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Apple
1 2 (20.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) VMware