Application Security Contracts in the North of England

Application Security (AppSec)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 159 182
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Application Security 10 26 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.64% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 26
10th Percentile £468 £526 £509
25th Percentile £522 £594 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £644 £689 £763
90th Percentile £648 £725 £849
England median daily rate £588 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -2.08% -11.11% +12.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +12 7 £638 -5.70% 17
Yorkshire -1 3 £438 -28.86% 6
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Skype
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) API Design
2 2 (20.00%) BDD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) OWASP
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (10.00%) OSCE
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
1 5 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk