Application Security Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Application Security (AppSec)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £472 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.77%
75th Percentile £597 - £538
90th Percentile £621 - £560
North West median daily rate £450 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -2.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,066 960 1,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.96% 90.40% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 572 979
10th Percentile £304 £294 £302
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 35 47
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.94 £15.06
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.42
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +8.33% -24.05%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.00 £75.25
North West median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +36.67% -20.53% +38.53%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Manchester

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Manchester

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Snyk
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (33.33%) Veracode
1 1 (33.33%) Xamarin