Application Security Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Application Security (AppSec)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 130 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 86.04% 83.87% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 54 73
10th Percentile £302 £148 £210
25th Percentile £343 £194 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -1.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £615 £625
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -5.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
% change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -5.11%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Application Security

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Belfast - 1 - -
Application Security
Northern Ireland

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle