Application Security Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Application Security (AppSec)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £375 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 45 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 87.10% 93.75% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 56
10th Percentile £207 £211 £180
25th Percentile £363 £361 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £616 £696 £588
Oxfordshire median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile - £13.08 -
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £45.00 £26.02
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +72.98% +6.18%
75th Percentile - £46.30 £56.38
90th Percentile £24.03 £46.78 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Oxford

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST