Application Security Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Application Security (AppSec)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.79% 1.05% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £449 £455 -
25th Percentile £483 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £461 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% - -
75th Percentile - £468 -
90th Percentile £491 £468 -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £713 £650
% change year-on-year -31.23% +9.62% -8.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 677 178 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.73% 93.19% 74.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 124 60
10th Percentile £358 £317 £196
25th Percentile £413 £402 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £506 £358
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +41.34% -33.15%
75th Percentile £535 £538 £499
90th Percentile £627 £549 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 1
10th Percentile £15.39 £26.13 -
25th Percentile £25.54 £27.59 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.70% +123.61% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.30 -
90th Percentile £60.50 £38.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £18.74
% change year-on-year +39.65% +29.92% -31.87%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Telford -43 6 £490 +6.23% 4
Application Security
West Midlands

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (16.67%) AWS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Scala Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Pair Programming
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (50.00%) User Research
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA