Application Security Contracts in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 268 226
Rank change year-on-year -16 -42 +72
Contract jobs citing Application Security 76 139 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.79% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.89% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 100 221
10th Percentile £429 £475 £475
25th Percentile £507 £540 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -9.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £700 £780 £800
90th Percentile £765 £823 £838
England median daily rate £600 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +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 12,082 15,598 22,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,067 11,123 16,628
10th Percentile £331 £341 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 298 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in London.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 -7 10 £650 -7.14% 31
North London - 1 £413 -
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 1 (1.32%) IBM Transformation Extender
1 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.32%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) Azure
2 26 (34.21%) AWS
3 18 (23.68%) GCP
4 10 (13.16%) GitHub
5 6 (7.89%) Akamai
6 4 (5.26%) Cloudflare
6 4 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.63%) SaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.32%) Datadog
9 1 (1.32%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.74%) Network Security
2 12 (15.79%) Firewall
3 8 (10.53%) HTTP
4 4 (5.26%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.63%) DMZ
5 2 (2.63%) VPN
6 1 (1.32%) IPsec
6 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) GIS
2 1 (1.32%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Burp Suite
2 8 (10.53%) Metasploit
3 7 (9.21%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.32%) AppScan
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Finance
3 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.63%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Legal
6 2 (2.63%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Back Office
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
7 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.32%) Games
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Police
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Architect
2 17 (22.37%) Security Architect
2 17 (22.37%) Security Engineer
3 12 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Senior
6 6 (7.89%) Consultant
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Applications Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Security Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Security Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Security Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Head of Information Security
10 2 (2.63%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) .NET
2 3 (3.95%) React
3 2 (2.63%) OAuth
4 1 (1.32%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.32%) CSS
4 1 (1.32%) Godot
4 1 (1.32%) jQuery
4 1 (1.32%) MapLibre
4 1 (1.32%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (1.32%) web3js
4 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.32%) Social Media
5 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.32%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (34.21%) Cloud Security
3 19 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 18 (23.68%) Security Testing
5 17 (22.37%) Security Architecture
6 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 15 (19.74%) Static Application Security Testing
8 14 (18.42%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (18.42%) OWASP
8 14 (18.42%) Threat Modelling
9 13 (17.11%) Penetration Testing
10 12 (15.79%) Incident Response
10 12 (15.79%) SDLC
10 12 (15.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (13.16%) Secure Coding
13 9 (11.84%) DevOps
13 9 (11.84%) Microservices
13 9 (11.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) Python
2 13 (17.11%) Bash
3 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (3.95%) C#
5 3 (3.95%) C++
5 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.95%) PHP
5 3 (3.95%) SQL
5 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.63%) Perl
6 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.32%) C
7 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.37%) CISSP
4 11 (14.47%) CREST Certified
5 10 (13.16%) OSCP
6 8 (10.53%) CEH
7 7 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (9.21%) Tigerscheme
8 6 (7.89%) Degree
9 5 (6.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (6.58%) CHECK Team Member
10 4 (5.26%) CISM
11 3 (3.95%) CISA
12 2 (2.63%) CCNP
12 2 (2.63%) CCSK
12 2 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (2.63%) CRISC
12 2 (2.63%) GIAC
12 2 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 2 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (15.79%) NIST
2 8 (10.53%) PCI DSS
3 7 (9.21%) NCSC
4 6 (7.89%) GDPR
5 5 (6.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (6.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (3.95%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.63%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.32%) COBIT
8 1 (1.32%) COSO
8 1 (1.32%) GRC
8 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Nmap
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.63%) CASB
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (1.32%) Ansible
5 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Veracode
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) SAP
4 4 (5.26%) ESRI
4 4 (5.26%) Imperva
5 3 (3.95%) Google
6 2 (2.63%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.63%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) Ariba
7 1 (1.32%) Concur
7 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) Qualys
7 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow