Application Security Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Application Security (AppSec)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
South London median daily rate £519 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 90 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.89% 90.00% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 93
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £479 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -5.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £623 £673
South London median daily rate £508 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.91% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £51.04
% change year-on-year -7.79% -61.79% +15.70%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Croydon

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800