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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 267 230
Rank change year-on-year -4 -37 +64
Contract jobs citing Application Security 91 118 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.81% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 81 171
10th Percentile £415 £481 £475
25th Percentile £481 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £695 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +6.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £788 £794
90th Percentile £700 £838 £838
England median daily rate £540 £628 £650
% change year-on-year -13.94% -3.46% +8.33%

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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -13 10 £488 -32.76% 7
West London - 1 - - 1
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.20%) Confluence
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) IBM Transformation Extender
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) Azure
2 39 (42.86%) AWS
3 32 (35.16%) GCP
4 16 (17.58%) GitHub
5 7 (7.69%) Akamai
5 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.40%) Datadog
6 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.20%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.20%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) Network Security
2 9 (9.89%) Firewall
3 7 (7.69%) HTTP
4 3 (3.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.30%) VLAN
5 2 (2.20%) DMZ
5 2 (2.20%) IPsec
5 2 (2.20%) VPN
5 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.10%) BGP
6 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.10%) DNS
6 1 (1.10%) MPLS
6 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.10%) VRRP
6 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) GIS
2 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Power BI
3 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Burp Suite
2 13 (14.29%) Metasploit
3 9 (9.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.89%) SonarQube
4 8 (8.79%) JIRA
5 7 (7.69%) GitLab
6 5 (5.49%) sqlmap
7 3 (3.30%) Git
8 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.10%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.10%) AppScan
9 1 (1.10%) Mocha
9 1 (1.10%) Snyk
9 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.10%) Xcode
General
1 39 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Finance
3 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.30%) Retail
5 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.20%) Electronics
6 2 (2.20%) Law
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 2 (2.20%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Architect
2 17 (18.68%) Security Architect
3 14 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Penetration Tester
6 10 (10.99%) Analyst
7 8 (8.79%) Senior
8 7 (7.69%) Consultant
8 7 (7.69%) Tester
9 6 (6.59%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Security Analyst
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Security Architect
12 3 (3.30%) Applications Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) OAuth
2 5 (5.49%) .NET
3 4 (4.40%) OpenID
3 4 (4.40%) RESTful
3 4 (4.40%) YAML
4 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.30%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.30%) React
5 2 (2.20%) Dagger
5 2 (2.20%) JSON
5 2 (2.20%) Node.js
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.20%) Swagger
6 1 (1.10%) Android SDK
6 1 (1.10%) CSS
6 1 (1.10%) jQuery
6 1 (1.10%) RxJava
6 1 (1.10%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.10%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Shadow IT
5 2 (2.20%) Social Media
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (34.07%) CI/CD
2 31 (34.07%) Cloud Security
3 27 (29.67%) OWASP
4 25 (27.47%) DevSecOps
5 23 (25.27%) Penetration Testing
5 23 (25.27%) Security Testing
6 22 (24.18%) DevOps
7 21 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
8 19 (20.88%) Agile
9 17 (18.68%) SDLC
10 16 (17.58%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.58%) Secure Coding
10 16 (17.58%) Static Application Security Testing
11 14 (15.38%) Security Architecture
11 14 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 11 (12.09%) Information Security
12 11 (12.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.57%) Python
2 18 (19.78%) Bash
3 10 (10.99%) Java
4 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.59%) SQL
6 4 (4.40%) C#
6 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.30%) C++
7 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.30%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.20%) Perl
8 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.58%) OSCP
4 14 (15.38%) CISSP
5 11 (12.09%) CREST Certified
6 7 (7.69%) Tigerscheme
7 6 (6.59%) CEH
7 6 (6.59%) GPEN
8 5 (5.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (5.49%) CHECK Team Member
8 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (5.49%) SANS
9 4 (4.40%) CRISC
9 4 (4.40%) Degree
10 3 (3.30%) CISA
10 3 (3.30%) CISM
11 2 (2.20%) GIAC
11 2 (2.20%) GWAPT
11 2 (2.20%) GXPN
11 2 (2.20%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (12.09%) NIST
3 9 (9.89%) PCI DSS
4 6 (6.59%) GDPR
4 6 (6.59%) NCSC
5 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (4.40%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.30%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.10%) COBIT
8 1 (1.10%) COSO
8 1 (1.10%) ISO 31000
8 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (1.10%) PMO
8 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.89%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.10%) Firmware
3 1 (1.10%) KVM
3 1 (1.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Nmap
2 10 (10.99%) Ansible
3 8 (8.79%) Terraform
4 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.49%) Nessus
6 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.20%) Puppet
8 1 (1.10%) CASB
8 1 (1.10%) CSIRT
8 1 (1.10%) Grafana
8 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Veracode
3 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.59%) Google
5 5 (5.49%) Oracle
6 4 (4.40%) ESRI
6 4 (4.40%) Splunk
7 3 (3.30%) SAP
8 2 (2.20%) F5
8 2 (2.20%) IBM
8 2 (2.20%) Imperva
8 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.20%) Qualys
8 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.10%) Okta
9 1 (1.10%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.10%) Tenable