Application Security Contracts in England

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 278 361
Rank change year-on-year -51 +83 -9
Contract jobs citing Application Security 226 433 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.92% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.02% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 319 381
10th Percentile £482 £488 £425
25th Percentile £550 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £750 £800 £688
90th Percentile £821 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +132.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in England.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 22 June 2024. 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
London -49 137 £600 -14.29% 30
North of England +15 37 £650 +7.26% 11
South East +3 23 £650 -7.14% 5
North West +14 18 £676 +11.55% 7
Yorkshire +19 16 £624 +8.43% 4
South West +14 15 £613 -12.50% 1
Midlands -26 7 £650 +7.26% 9
West Midlands -17 6 £650 +9.24% 9
North East +2 2 £625 -26.23%
East Midlands +1 1 £567 -6.44%
East of England -1 1 - - 1
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.77%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.55%) AWS
2 54 (23.89%) Azure
3 30 (13.27%) GCP
4 18 (7.96%) SaaS
5 14 (6.19%) Serverless
6 12 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (5.31%) IaaS
6 12 (5.31%) PaaS
7 10 (4.42%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.42%) GitHub
7 10 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.21%) CloudFront
8 5 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.21%) WhatsApp
9 4 (1.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.77%) Slack
10 3 (1.33%) Kong
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.83%) Network Security
2 27 (11.95%) Firewall
3 13 (5.75%) HTTPS
4 11 (4.87%) VPN
5 10 (4.42%) DNS
6 9 (3.98%) Internet
7 7 (3.10%) BIG-IP
8 6 (2.65%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (2.65%) Wireless
9 5 (2.21%) HTTP
9 5 (2.21%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.21%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.21%) WAN
10 3 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.33%) SSL
11 2 (0.88%) DHCP
11 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.44%) FTP
12 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.10%) MySQL
3 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.77%) Metadata
4 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
4 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) DB2
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (4.42%) JIRA
3 9 (3.98%) Burp Suite
4 8 (3.54%) GitLab
4 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.54%) Robot Framework
5 7 (3.10%) Git
6 4 (1.77%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.33%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.88%) Appium
8 2 (0.88%) git-flow
8 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.88%) XCTest
8 2 (0.88%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.44%) AppScan
9 1 (0.44%) MSI
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 72 (31.86%) Finance
2 39 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.83%) Banking
4 24 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.31%) Retail
6 11 (4.87%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.10%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.65%) Front Office
9 4 (1.77%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Automotive
10 2 (0.88%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (38.05%) Architect
2 67 (29.65%) Security Architect
3 35 (15.49%) Security Engineer
4 28 (12.39%) Consultant
4 28 (12.39%) Security Consultant
5 22 (9.73%) Applications Engineer
6 20 (8.85%) Applications Architect
7 19 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (7.08%) Senior
9 15 (6.64%) DevSecOps Architect
10 14 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) Tester
12 11 (4.87%) Penetration Tester
13 9 (3.98%) Analyst
13 9 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 8 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.54%) Security Manager
14 8 (3.54%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.54%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.10%) OAuth
2 6 (2.65%) CSS
2 6 (2.65%) HTML
2 6 (2.65%) SAML
3 5 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.21%) HTML5
3 5 (2.21%) Kafka
3 5 (2.21%) OAuth2
3 5 (2.21%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.77%) .NET
4 4 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.77%) JSON
4 4 (1.77%) YAML
5 3 (1.33%) Web Services
5 3 (1.33%) XML
6 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.88%) React Native
6 2 (0.88%) REST
6 2 (0.88%) RESTful
6 2 (0.88%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.73%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.08%) PKI
3 14 (6.19%) IoT
4 11 (4.87%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.98%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.54%) Hedge funds
8 7 (3.10%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.77%) CMDB
11 3 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
13 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.27%) Windows
2 20 (8.85%) Linux
3 14 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.10%) Unix
6 5 (2.21%) CentOS
6 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.09%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (29.65%) DevSecOps
3 66 (29.20%) CI/CD
4 64 (28.32%) Cloud Security
5 60 (26.55%) Agile
6 51 (22.57%) Information Security
7 50 (22.12%) DevOps
8 47 (20.80%) Identity Access Management
9 46 (20.35%) Security Testing
10 45 (19.91%) Static Application Security Testing
11 43 (19.03%) SDLC
12 40 (17.70%) Threat Modelling
13 39 (17.26%) Penetration Testing
13 39 (17.26%) Security Architecture
14 38 (16.81%) Vulnerability Management
15 37 (16.37%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
16 27 (11.95%) Deployment Automation
16 27 (11.95%) OWASP
17 26 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.26%) Python
2 25 (11.06%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.52%) C++
4 12 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.87%) Java
6 9 (3.98%) Bash
7 8 (3.54%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.54%) SQL
8 5 (2.21%) PHP
8 5 (2.21%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.77%) C
9 4 (1.77%) C#
9 4 (1.77%) Go
10 3 (1.33%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.88%) Ruby
11 2 (0.88%) Swift
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (10.62%) CISSP
2 21 (9.29%) CISM
2 21 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.96%) Degree
4 16 (7.08%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.08%) CISA
5 13 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.42%) GIAC
7 9 (3.98%) CEH
7 9 (3.98%) OSCP
8 8 (3.54%) CREST Certified
9 7 (3.10%) GPEN
9 7 (3.10%) ISACA
9 7 (3.10%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.10%) MBA
10 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.33%) CCNP
12 3 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.37%) NIST
2 16 (7.08%) QA
3 14 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.75%) GDPR
5 11 (4.87%) COBIT
6 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (3.10%) RMADS
8 6 (2.65%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.88%) GRC
11 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.44%) GLBA
11 1 (0.44%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (10.62%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.19%) Docker
3 8 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (13.72%) Terraform
2 24 (10.62%) Ansible
3 11 (4.87%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.42%) Puppet
5 4 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.77%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.33%) Kibana
6 3 (1.33%) logstash
6 3 (1.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.88%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 2 (0.88%) SCCM
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.44%) Nagios
8 1 (0.44%) Nmap
8 1 (0.44%) WebInspect
8 1 (0.44%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.75%) F5
3 10 (4.42%) Splunk
4 9 (3.98%) Cisco
5 8 (3.54%) VMware
6 7 (3.10%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.10%) SAP
6 7 (3.10%) Veracode
7 6 (2.65%) Checkmarx
7 6 (2.65%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.65%) Juniper
7 6 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.65%) Qualys
8 5 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.21%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.77%) Unisys
10 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.33%) Rapid7