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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 284 257
Rank change year-on-year +32 -27 -25
Contract jobs citing Application Security 186 87 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.64% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.69% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 59 96
10th Percentile £459 £431 £475
25th Percentile £516 £505 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £728 £694 £780
90th Percentile £788 £763 £823
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -3.85%
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 £77.50 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year +5.08% - -

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -7 19 £525 -12.50% 5
East London - 4 £735 - 1
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 9 (4.84%) Confluence
2 3 (1.61%) CMS
3 2 (1.08%) Mendix
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.08%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.54%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.54%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.17%) Azure
2 54 (29.03%) AWS
3 30 (16.13%) GCP
4 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.60%) SaaS
6 12 (6.45%) GitHub
7 11 (5.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (5.38%) Amazon Bedrock
8 10 (5.38%) OCI
9 8 (4.30%) Azure AI
9 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.76%) Datadog
11 5 (2.69%) Akamai
11 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.69%) Google Ads
11 5 (2.69%) Serverless
12 4 (2.15%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.51%) Network Security
2 10 (5.38%) HTTP
3 9 (4.84%) DNS
3 9 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.30%) SSL
5 7 (3.76%) Firewall
6 4 (2.15%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.61%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.61%) Internet
8 2 (1.08%) IPsec
8 2 (1.08%) X.509
9 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.61%) MySQL
2 3 (1.61%) Redis
3 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.54%) Db2
4 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.54%) Hazelcast
4 1 (0.54%) Looker
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (8.06%) Git
2 13 (6.99%) GitLab
3 10 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.30%) Snyk
5 7 (3.76%) JIRA
6 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.15%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.61%) JUnit
8 3 (1.61%) Moq
9 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.08%) Maven
9 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.08%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.54%) rollup.js
10 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.54%) Spock
10 1 (0.54%) Storybook
10 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 49 (26.34%) Finance
1 49 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.52%) Banking
3 14 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Retail
6 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.15%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.61%) Legal
7 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.61%) Marketing
7 3 (1.61%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.54%) Games
8 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Local Government
8 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (20.43%) Architect
2 30 (16.13%) Security Engineer
3 28 (15.05%) Security Architect
3 28 (15.05%) Senior
4 17 (9.14%) Applications Engineer
5 16 (8.60%) Lead
6 15 (8.06%) Developer
7 14 (7.53%) Analyst
8 13 (6.99%) Consultant
8 13 (6.99%) Security Specialist
9 12 (6.45%) Applications Architect
9 12 (6.45%) Senior Security Engineer
10 11 (5.91%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 10 (5.38%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 9 (4.84%) Security Consultant
13 8 (4.30%) Application Security Specialist
13 8 (4.30%) Applications Specialist
13 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.45%) REST
2 9 (4.84%) HTML
3 7 (3.76%) CSS
3 7 (3.76%) Kafka
3 7 (3.76%) OAuth
3 7 (3.76%) SAML
3 7 (3.76%) Spring
3 7 (3.76%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.23%) Django
4 6 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.69%) React
5 5 (2.69%) RESTful
6 4 (2.15%) .NET
6 4 (2.15%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (2.15%) JSP
6 4 (2.15%) Web Services
7 3 (1.61%) CSS3
7 3 (1.61%) HTML5
7 3 (1.61%) Node.js
7 3 (1.61%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.83%) Security Posture
2 20 (10.75%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.14%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.76%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.69%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.69%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.15%) CMDB
9 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.61%) FMCG
10 3 (1.61%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.84%) Linux
2 6 (3.23%) Windows
3 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.34%) CI/CD
2 46 (24.73%) Cloud Security
3 42 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (22.04%) DevOps
5 38 (20.43%) AI
6 37 (19.89%) DevSecOps
6 37 (19.89%) Security Architecture
6 37 (19.89%) Threat Modelling
7 30 (16.13%) SDLC
8 29 (15.59%) Data Protection
8 29 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (15.05%) Information Security
10 27 (14.52%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 27 (14.52%) Static Application Security Testing
11 26 (13.98%) Secure Coding
12 24 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
12 24 (12.90%) Microservices
13 23 (12.37%) Vulnerability Management
14 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (11.29%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.22%) Python
2 18 (9.68%) Java
3 12 (6.45%) SQL
4 11 (5.91%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.76%) Go
6 5 (2.69%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.61%) Bash
8 3 (1.61%) Bicep
8 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.08%) Groovy
9 2 (1.08%) Perl
9 2 (1.08%) Scala
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) COBOL
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) RPG
10 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 27 (14.52%) CISSP
2 26 (13.98%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.53%) Degree
5 13 (6.99%) CISM
6 12 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.91%) CCSP
8 8 (4.30%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.30%) CSSLP
9 6 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.23%) GIAC
10 5 (2.69%) GPEN
10 5 (2.69%) ISTQB
11 4 (2.15%) CISA
11 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.15%) GCIH
11 4 (2.15%) GWAPT
11 4 (2.15%) OSCP
12 3 (1.61%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.83%) NIST
2 21 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.99%) GRC
4 10 (5.38%) GDPR
4 10 (5.38%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.30%) QA
6 6 (3.23%) NCSC
7 4 (2.15%) SLA
7 4 (2.15%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.54%) PMO
10 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (10.75%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.14%) Terraform
3 9 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.76%) Grafana
5 6 (3.23%) Ansible
6 3 (1.61%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.91%) Oracle
3 9 (4.84%) Foundry
4 8 (4.30%) Google
4 8 (4.30%) IBM
4 8 (4.30%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.30%) Splunk
5 6 (3.23%) Citrix
5 6 (3.23%) Qualys
5 6 (3.23%) Tenable
6 5 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.15%) Okta
7 4 (2.15%) SAP
8 3 (1.61%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.61%) F5
8 3 (1.61%) Veracode
8 3 (1.61%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.08%) Rapid7