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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 146 175
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing Application Security 15 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.71% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.85% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 20
10th Percentile £518 £230 £574
25th Percentile £653 £571 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £622 £606
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% +2.64% +1.00%
75th Percentile £747 £650 £711
90th Percentile £758 £738 £850
England median daily rate £606 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 3,383 3,769 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.63% 83.98% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,162 2,277 3,265
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £562 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 308 199
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.35 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.19 £17.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.69 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -16.59% +35.12%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.88 £53.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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 21 July 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 21 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
North West -3 8 £708 +23.13% 9
North East +3 4 £738 +18.00% 2
Yorkshire -9 3 £538 -13.59% 10
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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (6.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Architect
1 11 (73.33%) Security Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Cyberattack
3 2 (13.33%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Attestation
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Data Security
4 4 (26.67%) Database Security
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (6.67%) OSCE
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Control-M
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) McAfee
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Wyse