Application Security Contracts in Northern Ireland

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.61% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% - 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £640
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.34% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 137 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.47% 77.40% 75.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 69
10th Percentile £179 £167 £164
25th Percentile £318 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £519 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +29.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £560 £622 £488
90th Percentile £610 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 5
10th Percentile £14.56 - -
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.10 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +51.69% +11.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £16.50
90th Percentile £26.34 £31.88 £17.66
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.14% +34.62%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Northern Ireland

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Northern Ireland

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
County Antrim - 3 - - 42
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Account Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Account Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle