Application Security Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 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 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £563 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +30.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 89 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 83.91% 89.00% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 50 123
10th Percentile £201 £250 £150
25th Percentile £263 £361 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £525
90th Percentile £635 £689 £618
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% +2.30% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 36
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.93 £14.98
Median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.00 £46.30 £31.63
90th Percentile £27.50 £49.50 £60.00
South East median hourly rate £33.75 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% -16.67%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Oxford - 1 £375 - 2
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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