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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 281 269
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 -52
Contract jobs citing Application Security 168 74 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.59% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.64% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 51 100
10th Percentile £448 £431 £475
25th Percentile £513 £506 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £640 £628
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +1.99% -8.06%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £780
90th Percentile £788 £788 £823
England median daily rate £575 £613 £640
% change year-on-year -6.12% -4.30% -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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -2 19 £520 -25.71% 1
East London - 3 £719 - 2
South London - 2 £766 -
West London - 1 £488 - 3
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 5 (2.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) CMS
3 2 (1.19%) Mendix
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.60%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.60%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) Azure
2 46 (27.38%) AWS
3 23 (13.69%) GCP
4 18 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (5.95%) Amazon Bedrock
6 10 (5.95%) GitHub
6 10 (5.95%) SaaS
7 8 (4.76%) Azure AI
7 8 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.98%) Google Ads
9 5 (2.98%) Serverless
10 4 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.38%) IaaS
10 4 (2.38%) OCI
10 4 (2.38%) PaaS
11 3 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (24.40%) Network Security
2 9 (5.36%) HTTP
3 8 (4.76%) Firewall
4 7 (4.17%) DNS
4 7 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.57%) SSL
6 4 (2.38%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.79%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.19%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.60%) Internet
9 1 (0.60%) IPsec
9 1 (0.60%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.19%) MySQL
2 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.19%) Redis
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.60%) Db2
3 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.60%) Looker
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) GitLab
2 8 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.17%) Git
3 7 (4.17%) Snyk
4 5 (2.98%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.38%) JIRA
5 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.79%) Moq
7 1 (0.60%) JMeter
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.60%) Spock
General
1 45 (26.79%) Finance
2 42 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.86%) Banking
4 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.76%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.79%) Marketing
9 3 (1.79%) Publishing
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.43%) Architect
2 31 (18.45%) Security Architect
3 29 (17.26%) Security Engineer
4 20 (11.90%) Senior
5 18 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Lead
7 14 (8.33%) Applications Architect
8 13 (7.74%) Security Specialist
9 12 (7.14%) Consultant
10 11 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (5.95%) Analyst
11 10 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 10 (5.95%) Developer
11 10 (5.95%) Senior Security Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Security Consultant
12 9 (5.36%) Senior Applications Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Application Security Specialist
13 8 (4.76%) Applications Specialist
13 8 (4.76%) Security Analyst
14 7 (4.17%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.36%) REST
2 8 (4.76%) HTML
3 7 (4.17%) J2EE
3 7 (4.17%) JSP
3 7 (4.17%) SAML
4 6 (3.57%) CSS
4 6 (3.57%) OAuth
5 5 (2.98%) Django
6 4 (2.38%) .NET
6 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.38%) React
6 4 (2.38%) Spring
6 4 (2.38%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.38%) Web Services
7 3 (1.79%) RESTful
8 2 (1.19%) Celery
8 2 (1.19%) CSS3
8 2 (1.19%) HTML5
8 2 (1.19%) Node.js
8 2 (1.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Security Posture
2 20 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.93%) AI Agents
4 10 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.57%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.98%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.98%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.79%) FMCG
10 3 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.79%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.57%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Windows
3 3 (1.79%) zOS
4 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.19%) CI/CD
1 44 (26.19%) Cloud Security
2 42 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (22.62%) Security Architecture
4 37 (22.02%) Threat Modelling
5 33 (19.64%) DevOps
6 30 (17.86%) DevSecOps
7 29 (17.26%) Information Security
8 28 (16.67%) Data Protection
9 27 (16.07%) SDLC
10 26 (15.48%) AI
10 26 (15.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 26 (15.48%) Static Application Security Testing
11 25 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (13.10%) Microservices
13 21 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (12.50%) Incident Response
13 21 (12.50%) Secure Coding
14 20 (11.90%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.52%) Java
1 16 (9.52%) Python
2 10 (5.95%) JavaScript
2 10 (5.95%) SQL
3 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.38%) RPG
4 3 (1.79%) Bicep
4 3 (1.79%) Go
4 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.60%) Bash
6 1 (0.60%) C#
6 1 (0.60%) COBOL
6 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.60%) LookML
6 1 (0.60%) PHP
6 1 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (17.26%) CISSP
2 25 (14.88%) Security Cleared
3 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.52%) CISM
5 15 (8.93%) Degree
6 12 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (6.55%) CCSP
8 9 (5.36%) CSSLP
8 9 (5.36%) GIAC
9 8 (4.76%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.98%) ISTQB
12 4 (2.38%) CISA
12 4 (2.38%) GCIH
12 4 (2.38%) GWAPT
13 3 (1.79%) CEH
13 3 (1.79%) CISMP
13 3 (1.79%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.52%) NIST
2 15 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.14%) GRC
4 9 (5.36%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.76%) GDPR
6 5 (2.98%) NCSC
6 5 (2.98%) QA
7 4 (2.38%) SLA
8 3 (1.79%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.60%) PMO
10 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.71%) Docker
2 8 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.95%) Terraform
3 8 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.38%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.79%) Ansible
5 3 (1.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.60%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.36%) Foundry
2 9 (5.36%) Splunk
3 7 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.57%) Citrix
5 5 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.98%) Google
5 5 (2.98%) IBM
5 5 (2.98%) Qualys
5 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.98%) Tenable
6 4 (2.38%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.38%) Okta
6 4 (2.38%) Oracle
6 4 (2.38%) SAP
6 4 (2.38%) Veracode
7 3 (1.79%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.79%) F5
7 3 (1.79%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.60%) MobileIron