Application Security Contract Job Trends in Luton

Application Security (AppSec)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 79 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 89.54% 96.34% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 44 116
10th Percentile £350 £224 £452
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 24
10th Percentile £60.00 £20.26 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £43.06 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £57.20 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.25% +189.62% -65.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.03 £30.69
90th Percentile £88.75 £81.25 £65.75
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £68.21 £45.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +49.09% +112.79% -59.05%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton.

Application Security job vacancy trend in Luton

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Application Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Application Security

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft