Application Security Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Application Security (AppSec)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 54 33
Rank change year-on-year -13 -21 +28
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.95% 0.19% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.23% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £586
25th Percentile £450 - £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £606
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.39%
75th Percentile £716 - -
90th Percentile £769 - £645
North West median daily rate £688 £613 £606
% change year-on-year +12.24% +1.07% +27.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 578 440 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.75% 85.77% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 274 190
10th Percentile £300 £326 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Cheshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Cheshire

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Application Security

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Knutsford - 2 £761 -
Warrington - 2 £450 -
Application Security
North West

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Attestation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Symantec