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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 267 273
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 -66
Contract jobs citing Application Security 126 73 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.59% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.63% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 46 87
10th Percentile £444 £424 £454
25th Percentile £504 £502 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £621 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +3.54% -14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £756 £756
90th Percentile £780 £806 £781
England median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £28.85 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £35.50 - -
75th Percentile £35.75 - -
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 15,807 11,500 15,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.40% 92.19% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,571 7,797 11,258
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 173 315
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.21% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%

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 9 May 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
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 9 May 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 18 £520 -16.80% 14
East London -5 3 £719 - 4
South London - 3 £723 -
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 3 (2.38%) CMS
1 3 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) Mendix
2 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 50 (39.68%) Azure
2 37 (29.37%) AWS
3 19 (15.08%) GCP
4 14 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.94%) Amazon Bedrock
6 9 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (6.35%) Azure AI
8 7 (5.56%) GitHub
8 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.76%) SaaS
10 5 (3.97%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.97%) Google Ads
11 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.17%) IaaS
11 4 (3.17%) PaaS
11 4 (3.17%) Serverless
12 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.38%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.63%) Network Security
2 9 (7.14%) Firewall
3 8 (6.35%) HTTP
4 5 (3.97%) DNS
4 5 (3.97%) SSL
4 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.17%) HTTPS
6 3 (2.38%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.79%) Internet
8 1 (0.79%) IPsec
8 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.79%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.79%) DB2
2 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.79%) Looker
2 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.79%) MySQL
2 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) GitLab
2 7 (5.56%) Git
2 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.17%) Burp Suite
3 4 (3.17%) Snyk
4 3 (2.38%) JIRA
5 2 (1.59%) JUnit
5 2 (1.59%) Moq
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Babel
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) git-flow
6 1 (0.79%) JMeter
6 1 (0.79%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.79%) Mockito
6 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Spock
6 1 (0.79%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 38 (30.16%) Finance
2 29 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.25%) Banking
4 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Marketing
8 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.38%) Publishing
10 2 (1.59%) Electronics
10 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (25.40%) Architect
2 26 (20.63%) Security Architect
3 15 (11.90%) Applications Architect
3 15 (11.90%) Security Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Applications Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Security Specialist
4 13 (10.32%) Senior
5 11 (8.73%) Consultant
5 11 (8.73%) Developer
6 10 (7.94%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 10 (7.94%) Lead
7 9 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.35%) Application Security Specialist
8 8 (6.35%) Applications Specialist
8 8 (6.35%) Tester
9 7 (5.56%) Applications Consultant
10 5 (3.97%) Penetration Tester
11 4 (3.17%) Network Specialist
11 4 (3.17%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) J2EE
1 7 (5.56%) JSP
2 6 (4.76%) HTML
2 6 (4.76%) Spring
2 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.97%) CSS
3 5 (3.97%) REST
4 4 (3.17%) RESTful
5 3 (2.38%) .NET
5 3 (2.38%) Kafka
5 3 (2.38%) OAuth
5 3 (2.38%) React
5 3 (2.38%) SAML
5 3 (2.38%) Web Services
6 2 (1.59%) Flutter
6 2 (1.59%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.59%) Middleware
6 2 (1.59%) React Native
6 2 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 10 (7.94%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.97%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.38%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.59%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.59%) CMDB
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.59%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.59%) IoT
8 2 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
1 4 (3.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) zOS
3 1 (0.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.37%) CI/CD
2 33 (26.19%) Cloud Security
3 30 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (23.02%) Threat Modelling
5 26 (20.63%) Security Architecture
6 24 (19.05%) DevOps
7 23 (18.25%) Information Security
7 23 (18.25%) SDLC
8 21 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 19 (15.08%) DevSecOps
9 19 (15.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 19 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (15.08%) Static Application Security Testing
10 18 (14.29%) AI
10 18 (14.29%) Data Protection
10 18 (14.29%) Microservices
11 17 (13.49%) Identity Access Management
12 16 (12.70%) Observability
12 16 (12.70%) OWASP
12 16 (12.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.70%) Python
2 15 (11.90%) Java
3 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.56%) SQL
4 5 (3.97%) Go
5 3 (2.38%) Bicep
5 3 (2.38%) RPG
6 2 (1.59%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.79%) LookML
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.46%) CISSP
3 20 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.52%) CISM
5 11 (8.73%) CCSP
6 9 (7.14%) CSSLP
7 7 (5.56%) GIAC
8 6 (4.76%) Degree
9 5 (3.97%) GPEN
9 5 (3.97%) OSCP
10 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.17%) CEH
10 4 (3.17%) CREST Certified
10 4 (3.17%) GWAPT
11 3 (2.38%) CISMP
11 3 (2.38%) OSCE
11 3 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) GRC
2 10 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.14%) NIST
4 5 (3.97%) GDPR
4 5 (3.97%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.17%) NCSC
5 4 (3.17%) SLA
6 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.59%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.59%) QA
6 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.52%) Docker
2 8 (6.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (1.59%) Grafana
3 2 (1.59%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.79%) Argo
4 1 (0.79%) Nessus
4 1 (0.79%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.79%) Nmap
4 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.14%) Foundry
3 8 (6.35%) Splunk
4 7 (5.56%) Google
4 7 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.76%) Qualys
6 5 (3.97%) SAP
6 5 (3.97%) Tenable
7 4 (3.17%) F5
7 4 (3.17%) Okta
8 3 (2.38%) Cribl.io
8 3 (2.38%) IBM
8 3 (2.38%) Oracle
8 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.38%) Veracode
9 2 (1.59%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.79%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.79%) ExtraHop
10 1 (0.79%) Netsparker