Application Security Contract Job Trends in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 289 262
Rank change year-on-year +26 -27 -35
Contract jobs citing Application Security 180 79 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.59% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.64% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 52 96
10th Percentile £450 £429 £475
25th Percentile £513 £507 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +4.49% -7.89%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £780
90th Percentile £788 £765 £823
England median daily rate £575 £600 £640
% change year-on-year -4.17% -6.25% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £32.05 - -
25th Percentile £35.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -25.42% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in London

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Security

Application Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the London region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 19 £520 -20.00% 6
East London - 4 £735 -
South London - 2 £766 -
West London - 1 £488 - 5
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) CMS
3 2 (1.11%) Mendix
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.11%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.56%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.00%) Azure
2 47 (26.11%) AWS
3 23 (12.78%) GCP
4 17 (9.44%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.78%) SaaS
6 11 (6.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 10 (5.56%) GitHub
8 8 (4.44%) Azure AI
8 8 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.89%) OCI
10 6 (3.33%) Serverless
11 5 (2.78%) Google Ads
12 4 (2.22%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.22%) IaaS
12 4 (2.22%) PaaS
13 3 (1.67%) Akamai
13 3 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (22.22%) Network Security
2 8 (4.44%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) HTTP
3 7 (3.89%) DNS
3 7 (3.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.33%) SSL
5 4 (2.22%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.67%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.56%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) IPsec
8 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.67%) Redis
1 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.11%) MySQL
2 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.56%) Db2
3 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.56%) Hazelcast
3 1 (0.56%) Looker
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.56%) GitLab
2 8 (4.44%) Git
2 8 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.89%) Snyk
4 5 (2.78%) Burp Suite
4 5 (2.78%) JIRA
5 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.67%) Moq
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.56%) Spock
7 1 (0.56%) Storybook
7 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 47 (26.11%) Finance
1 47 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.78%) Banking
3 12 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.44%) Retail
6 5 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.67%) Marketing
8 3 (1.67%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Local Government
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.22%) Architect
2 32 (17.78%) Security Architect
3 28 (15.56%) Security Engineer
4 23 (12.78%) Senior
5 17 (9.44%) Applications Engineer
6 16 (8.89%) Lead
7 15 (8.33%) Applications Architect
8 13 (7.22%) Analyst
8 13 (7.22%) Security Specialist
9 12 (6.67%) Consultant
10 11 (6.11%) Developer
10 11 (6.11%) Senior Security Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 10 (5.56%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Security Consultant
13 8 (4.44%) Application Security Specialist
13 8 (4.44%) Applications Specialist
13 8 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.00%) HTML
1 9 (5.00%) REST
2 7 (3.89%) CSS
2 7 (3.89%) J2EE
2 7 (3.89%) JSP
3 6 (3.33%) Django
3 6 (3.33%) OAuth
3 6 (3.33%) SAML
4 5 (2.78%) React
5 4 (2.22%) .NET
5 4 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.22%) RESTful
5 4 (2.22%) Spring
5 4 (2.22%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.22%) Web Services
6 3 (1.67%) CSS3
6 3 (1.67%) HTML5
6 3 (1.67%) Node.js
6 3 (1.67%) SLSA
7 2 (1.11%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 22 (12.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.89%) AI Agents
4 10 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.78%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.67%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.67%) CMDB
10 3 (1.67%) FMCG
10 3 (1.67%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Windows
3 3 (1.67%) zOS
4 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.67%) CI/CD
1 48 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 44 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 38 (21.11%) Threat Modelling
5 37 (20.56%) DevOps
6 31 (17.22%) DevSecOps
6 31 (17.22%) Information Security
7 30 (16.67%) AI
8 29 (16.11%) Data Protection
8 29 (16.11%) SDLC
9 28 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 26 (14.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 26 (14.44%) Static Application Security Testing
12 24 (13.33%) Microservices
13 23 (12.78%) Identity Access Management
14 22 (12.22%) Incident Response
14 22 (12.22%) Risk Management
14 22 (12.22%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.44%) Python
2 16 (8.89%) Java
3 11 (6.11%) JavaScript
3 11 (6.11%) SQL
4 5 (2.78%) Go
5 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.22%) RPG
6 3 (1.67%) Bicep
6 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) COBOL
8 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.56%) LookML
8 1 (0.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (17.22%) CISSP
2 27 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.44%) CISM
5 15 (8.33%) Degree
6 12 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (6.11%) CCSP
8 9 (5.00%) CSSLP
8 9 (5.00%) GIAC
9 8 (4.44%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.33%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.78%) ISTQB
12 4 (2.22%) CISA
12 4 (2.22%) GCIH
12 4 (2.22%) GWAPT
13 3 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.67%) GPEN
13 3 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.11%) NIST
2 19 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.22%) GRC
4 10 (5.56%) PCI DSS
5 9 (5.00%) GDPR
6 6 (3.33%) NCSC
7 5 (2.78%) QA
8 4 (2.22%) SLA
8 4 (2.22%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.11%) WCAG
11 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (10.00%) Docker
2 8 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.67%) Terraform
3 9 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.22%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.67%) Ansible
5 3 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.00%) Foundry
2 9 (5.00%) Splunk
3 7 (3.89%) IBM
3 7 (3.89%) OpenAI
3 7 (3.89%) Oracle
4 6 (3.33%) Citrix
4 6 (3.33%) Qualys
4 6 (3.33%) Tenable
5 5 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.78%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.22%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.22%) Okta
6 4 (2.22%) SAP
6 4 (2.22%) Veracode
7 3 (1.67%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.67%) F5
7 3 (1.67%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.11%) Rapid7