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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & 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 47 40 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 88.68% 81.63% 98.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 37
10th Percentile £393 £350 £269
25th Percentile £465 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £683 £528 £588
90th Percentile £743 £701 £670
Suffolk median daily rate £478 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £16.18 - £16.23
25th Percentile £17.21 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £18.92 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.97% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £20.96 - £35.31
90th Percentile £22.18 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £22.38 £61.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -63.47% +337.50% -7.41%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Application Security job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

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