Application Security Contract Job Trends in High Wycombe

Application Security (AppSec)
Buckinghamshire > High Wycombe

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in High Wycombe requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in High Wycombe 5.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +10.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
High Wycombe

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 High Wycombe.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in High Wycombe 100.00% 100.00% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £190 - -
25th Percentile £239 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £491 £688 -
90th Percentile £538 £755 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +17.32% -0.56% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £23.50 -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -8.55% -
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.05 £15.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.11% -48.75% +82.93%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in High Wycombe

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in High Wycombe

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in High Wycombe 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST