Application Security Contracts in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 222 323
Rank change year-on-year -61 +101 -22
Contract jobs citing Application Security 106 322 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 1.19% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.30% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 232 233
10th Percentile £475 £488 £463
25th Percentile £529 £546 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £738
90th Percentile £780 £846 £850
England median daily rate £606 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -10.22% +12.50% +3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
England median hourly rate - £95.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +26 16 £488 -29.09% 6
East London -2 8 £650 -18.75% 4
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 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.94%) nginx
3 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.64%) Azure
2 18 (16.98%) AWS
2 18 (16.98%) SaaS
3 14 (13.21%) GCP
4 12 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (11.32%) IaaS
4 12 (11.32%) PaaS
4 12 (11.32%) Serverless
5 7 (6.60%) GitHub
6 4 (3.77%) Slack
6 4 (3.77%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.89%) Bitrise
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.89%) OCI
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (0.94%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.94%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.09%) Firewall
2 5 (4.72%) DHCP
2 5 (4.72%) DNS
2 5 (4.72%) SD-WAN
2 5 (4.72%) WAN
3 4 (3.77%) IPv4
3 4 (3.77%) Network Security
4 3 (2.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.89%) HTTP
5 2 (1.89%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.94%) FTP
6 1 (0.94%) Internet
6 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.94%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) MySQL
1 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.77%) Metadata
3 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.94%) DB2
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Burp Suite
2 5 (4.72%) GitLab
2 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) JIRA
3 4 (3.77%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (2.83%) Git
5 2 (1.89%) Appium
5 2 (1.89%) git-flow
5 2 (1.89%) XCTest
5 2 (1.89%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.94%) AppScan
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 31 (29.25%) Finance
2 19 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (29.25%) Architect
2 22 (20.75%) Security Architect
3 16 (15.09%) Security Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) Senior
4 13 (12.26%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Consultant
5 12 (11.32%) Security Consultant
6 10 (9.43%) Senior Architect
6 10 (9.43%) Senior Security Architect
7 9 (8.49%) Analyst
7 9 (8.49%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.55%) Cloud Security Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Applications Consultant
10 6 (5.66%) Project Manager
10 6 (5.66%) Vulnerability Management Manager
10 6 (5.66%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
10 6 (5.66%) Vulnerability Manager
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) SailPoint
2 5 (4.72%) CSS
2 5 (4.72%) HTML
3 4 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (3.77%) HTML5
3 4 (3.77%) RESTful
4 3 (2.83%) OAuth
4 3 (2.83%) OpenID
4 3 (2.83%) SAML
5 2 (1.89%) React Native
5 2 (1.89%) REST
5 2 (1.89%) SwiftUI
5 2 (1.89%) UIKit
6 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.94%) JSON
6 1 (0.94%) Laravel
6 1 (0.94%) Node.js
6 1 (0.94%) SAPUI5
6 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Mobile App
2 13 (12.26%) IoT
3 8 (7.55%) Security Posture
4 7 (6.60%) PKI
5 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.89%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Windows
2 11 (10.38%) Linux
3 5 (4.72%) Unix
3 5 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.77%) CentOS
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.89%) Android
5 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.96%) Cloud Security
2 34 (32.08%) Security Testing
3 28 (26.42%) Static Application Security Testing
4 26 (24.53%) CI/CD
5 24 (22.64%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (22.64%) Deployment Automation
6 23 (21.70%) DevSecOps
7 22 (20.75%) DevOps
7 22 (20.75%) SDLC
7 22 (20.75%) Security Architecture
7 22 (20.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 21 (19.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 18 (16.98%) Information Security
9 18 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
10 15 (14.15%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (13.21%) Design Patterns
11 14 (13.21%) Threat Modelling
12 13 (12.26%) Penetration Testing
13 12 (11.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.26%) Python
2 12 (11.32%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.60%) SQL
4 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.66%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.72%) Bash
5 5 (4.72%) C++
5 5 (4.72%) Java
5 5 (4.72%) PHP
6 4 (3.77%) Go
6 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.77%) VBScript
7 3 (2.83%) C
8 2 (1.89%) Perl
8 2 (1.89%) Swift
9 1 (0.94%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
1 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) CISSP
2 5 (4.72%) Degree
3 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) CISM
4 3 (2.83%) GIAC
5 2 (1.89%) CCNP
5 2 (1.89%) CEH
5 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) GCIA
5 2 (1.89%) GCIH
5 2 (1.89%) OSCP
5 2 (1.89%) SANS
6 1 (0.94%) ECSA
6 1 (0.94%) GAWN
6 1 (0.94%) GCFE
6 1 (0.94%) GPPA
6 1 (0.94%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.81%) NIST
2 9 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.77%) QA
5 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.94%) GLBA
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.94%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.94%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.94%) IAG
3 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Terraform
2 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Nessus
4 2 (1.89%) Puppet
4 2 (1.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.94%) CASB
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.94%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) Graylog
5 1 (0.94%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.94%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.94%) Nagios
5 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.94%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (0.94%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) CyberArk
3 9 (8.49%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (8.49%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.60%) Splunk
5 5 (4.72%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.77%) Checkmarx
6 4 (3.77%) Veracode
7 3 (2.83%) Cisco
7 3 (2.83%) Oracle
7 3 (2.83%) Qualys
8 2 (1.89%) Apple
8 2 (1.89%) Okta
8 2 (1.89%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.89%) SAP
8 2 (1.89%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.94%) F5
9 1 (0.94%) Netskope