Application Security Contracts in Reading

Application Security (AppSec)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 71 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Application Security 8 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 1.68% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.86% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £538 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% -21.15% +233.33%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £681
90th Percentile - £650 £685
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £513 £613
% change year-on-year +26.83% -16.33% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Reading

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Reading

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Reading

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) NGFW
2 3 (37.50%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Security
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) OWASP
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) COBIT
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware