Application Security Contract Job Trends in East London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > East London

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.52% 1.02% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 1.10% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £716 - £540
25th Percentile £717 - £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.31%
75th Percentile £747 - £650
90th Percentile £764 - -
London median daily rate £575 £621 £600
% change year-on-year -7.44% +3.54% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 99 91 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 83.19% 92.86% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 75 182
10th Percentile £324 £264 £356
25th Percentile £421 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.85% +1.89%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £629
90th Percentile £716 £675 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.66 -
25th Percentile £21.85 £24.66 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.43 £28.60 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +22.64% +3.71%
75th Percentile £26.44 £37.00 £36.48
90th Percentile £28.00 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in East London

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

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

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £719 -
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft