Application Security Contract Job Trends in Preston

Application Security (AppSec)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 46 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 85.71% 88.46% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 20
10th Percentile £250 £431 £335
25th Percentile £440 £502 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +26.59% +0.88%
75th Percentile £680 £573 £513
90th Percentile £700 £646 £593
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £525 £620
% change year-on-year +4.76% -15.32% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 27
10th Percentile £37.91 £27.02 £21.43
25th Percentile £39.53 £30.40 £41.84
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.52 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% -31.75% +14.57%
75th Percentile £45.84 £37.00 £53.58
90th Percentile £68.71 £55.71 £75.83
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +13.81%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Preston

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2