Application Security Contracts in the North East

Application Security (AppSec)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 34 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.93% 0.62% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.78% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £716 £605 £593
25th Percentile £722 £613 £759
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £625 £847
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -26.23% +18.91%
75th Percentile £747 £638 £850
90th Percentile £749 £645 £861
England median daily rate £600 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 259 258 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.19% 80.37% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 114 224
10th Percentile £218 £263 £257
25th Percentile £362 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £478 £512
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -6.65% +2.30%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 48 9
10th Percentile - £11.48 £16.85
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.51 £69.13 £36.24
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 the North East

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the North East

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the North East

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -3 3 £738 +18.00% 4
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft