Application Security Contract Job Trends in South London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 178 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 89.50% 87.68% 84.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 116 178
10th Percentile £259 £215 £222
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -0.94% -8.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £720 £731 £650
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 18
10th Percentile - - £15.59
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £51.04
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -61.79% +15.70%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.59
90th Percentile - £75.79 £69.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -19.26% -1.58% +5.67%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in South London

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Application Security

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
Croydon - 2 £519 -
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800