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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 278 288
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Application Security 85 103 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.65% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.73% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 96
10th Percentile £402 £413 £475
25th Percentile £488 £492 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £618 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% -1.28% -3.77%
75th Percentile £645 £765 £700
90th Percentile £688 £794 £800
England median daily rate £538 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -13.65% -0.40% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -18.03%

All Process and 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 13,057 14,136 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.39% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,131 12,920
10th Percentile £334 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 170 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.76
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +0.89% -4.39%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.06 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 2025.

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
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 22 November 2025. 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 -11 12 £525 -24.46% 21
South London - 3 £525 -
West London -12 1 - - 1
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 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.35%) CMS
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (1.18%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) Azure
2 38 (44.71%) AWS
3 29 (34.12%) GCP
4 18 (21.18%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.88%) Akamai
6 5 (5.88%) Datadog
6 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.53%) Firebase
8 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) Firewall
1 8 (9.41%) Network Security
2 5 (5.88%) HTTP
3 4 (4.71%) VLAN
4 3 (3.53%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.35%) IPsec
5 2 (2.35%) VPN
5 2 (2.35%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.18%) BGP
6 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.18%) DNS
6 1 (1.18%) MPLS
6 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.18%) VRRP
6 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.53%) MySQL
2 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) Power BI
3 2 (2.35%) SQLite
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.18%) GIS
4 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Burp Suite
1 15 (17.65%) Metasploit
2 14 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.47%) JIRA
3 11 (12.94%) SonarQube
4 8 (9.41%) GitLab
5 6 (7.06%) Git
5 6 (7.06%) sqlmap
6 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.53%) Xcode
7 2 (2.35%) CocoaPods
7 2 (2.35%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.35%) fastlane
7 2 (2.35%) GoCD
7 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.18%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.18%) Mocha
8 1 (1.18%) Mockito
General
1 35 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Finance
3 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.59%) Banking
5 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
5 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.18%) Electronics
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 14 (16.47%) Security Engineer
2 13 (15.29%) Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Penetration Tester
4 10 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Tester
6 8 (9.41%) Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Security Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Senior
8 5 (5.88%) Consultant
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
9 4 (4.71%) Applications Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Oracle Team Leader
10 3 (3.53%) Support Team Leader
10 3 (3.53%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) RESTful
2 5 (5.88%) OAuth
2 5 (5.88%) OpenID
3 4 (4.71%) AWS CDK
3 4 (4.71%) Kafka
3 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
3 4 (4.71%) YAML
4 3 (3.53%) .NET
4 3 (3.53%) Flutter
4 3 (3.53%) React
4 3 (3.53%) React Native
4 3 (3.53%) Spring
5 2 (2.35%) AVFoundation
5 2 (2.35%) Core Data
5 2 (2.35%) CSS
5 2 (2.35%) HTML
5 2 (2.35%) JSON
5 2 (2.35%) RxSwift
5 2 (2.35%) Swagger
5 2 (2.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Security Posture
2 12 (14.12%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.35%) Animation
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Shadow IT
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) Windows
3 5 (5.88%) Android
4 4 (4.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.18%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.12%) Cloud Security
2 29 (34.12%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (32.94%) OWASP
4 26 (30.59%) DevSecOps
5 25 (29.41%) Penetration Testing
6 24 (28.24%) DevOps
7 22 (25.88%) Security Testing
8 21 (24.71%) SDLC
9 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (21.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (20.00%) Agile
11 17 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
11 17 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
12 16 (18.82%) Secure Coding
12 16 (18.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
13 13 (15.29%) Test Automation
14 12 (14.12%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.41%) Python
2 17 (20.00%) Bash
3 8 (9.41%) Java
3 8 (9.41%) SQL
4 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.88%) Go
5 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.53%) C#
6 3 (3.53%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.53%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.53%) Swift
7 2 (2.35%) R
7 2 (2.35%) Rust
7 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.00%) OSCP
3 11 (12.94%) CREST Certified
4 7 (8.24%) CISSP
4 7 (8.24%) Tigerscheme
5 6 (7.06%) GPEN
5 6 (7.06%) SANS
6 5 (5.88%) CEH
6 5 (5.88%) CHECK Team Member
7 4 (4.71%) Degree
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.35%) CISM
8 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.35%) CRISC
8 2 (2.35%) GWAPT
8 2 (2.35%) GXPN
8 2 (2.35%) OSCE
9 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.18%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) NIST
2 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (7.06%) NCSC
5 5 (5.88%) GDPR
5 5 (5.88%) PCI DSS
6 4 (4.71%) NIST 800
6 4 (4.71%) SLA
7 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (2.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.18%) COBIT
9 1 (1.18%) COSO
9 1 (1.18%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.18%) PMO
9 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
2 10 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) KVM
3 1 (1.18%) Squid
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Nmap
2 11 (12.94%) Ansible
3 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.76%) Terraform
4 6 (7.06%) Nessus
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.35%) Grafana
6 2 (2.35%) Puppet
6 2 (2.35%) rkt
6 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.18%) Argo
7 1 (1.18%) CASB
7 1 (1.18%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.18%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.18%) SCCM
7 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Veracode
3 9 (10.59%) Oracle
4 8 (9.41%) Google
4 8 (9.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.06%) Splunk
6 3 (3.53%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.53%) Qualys
7 2 (2.35%) Apple
7 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.35%) F5
7 2 (2.35%) Imperva
7 2 (2.35%) SAP
7 2 (2.35%) Tenable
8 1 (1.18%) AlgoSec
8 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.18%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.18%) Xamarin