Application Security Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Application Security (AppSec)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Application Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 3.03% - 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 30 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 84.85% 83.33% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 75
10th Percentile £200 £151 £400
25th Percentile £300 £299 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £369 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -43.27% +8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £459 £744
90th Percentile £550 £538 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £370 £375 £600
% change year-on-year -1.33% -37.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £15.84 - £14.21
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.05 £15.27
Median hourly rate £17.46 £14.60 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -15.51% -
75th Percentile £18.32 £15.15 £19.05
90th Percentile £18.68 - £19.95
Suffolk median hourly rate £22.04 £14.60 £17.28
% change year-on-year +50.92% -15.51% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Ipswich

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable