Application Security Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Application Security (AppSec)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 47 71
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +34
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 14 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.81% 2.31% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.66% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 0
10th Percentile £491 £394 -
25th Percentile £506 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% - -
75th Percentile £569 £456 -
90th Percentile £588 £475 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £532 £438 -
% change year-on-year +21.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 526 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.80% 86.94% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 331 539
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £614
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.00 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £26.95 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Leeds

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Leeds

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Flash
1 2 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) KYC
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
4 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Rust
1 2 (33.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCSK
2 2 (33.33%) CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) CEH
2 2 (33.33%) CISA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) OSCP
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) PSD2
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) McAfee
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft