Application Security Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Application Security (AppSec)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £575 £625 -
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 200 111 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 68.49% 82.84% 79.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 59
10th Percentile £243 £139 £260
25th Percentile £452 £339 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £594
90th Percentile £711 £728 £646
East Midlands median daily rate £478 £415 £445
% change year-on-year +15.18% -6.74% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 13
10th Percentile £8.00 £15.46 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £17.45 £17.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £25.11 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -42.26% +3.86% +12.47%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.98 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £21.59
% change year-on-year -5.30% -12.60% -5.10%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Derby - 1 £575 -
Application Security
East Midlands

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware