Application Security Specialist Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Application Security Specialist
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Application Security Specialist daily rate in Halifax is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Application Security Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 10.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £418 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £325 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Halifax. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Halifax with a recognized job title 28 15 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 10
10th Percentile £313 £470 £330
25th Percentile - £488 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £738
90th Percentile £519 £550 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.75
Median hourly rate - £12.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - -20.65% -
75th Percentile - - £16.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £25.84 £15.23
% change year-on-year -26.47% +69.67% -54.91%

Application Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 28 February 2026, Application Security Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Halifax region featuring Application Security Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Akamai
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security

Application Security Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 3 (100.00%) Akamai
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript