Application Security Contract Job Trends in Telford

Application Security (AppSec)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford 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 78 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.82% 1.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.26% -
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 -
Shropshire median daily rate £490 £461 -
% change year-on-year +6.23% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 159 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 89.09% 95.78% 76.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 121 58
10th Percentile £358 £325 £257
25th Percentile £413 £403 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £512 £358
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +43.02% -33.70%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £501
90th Percentile £627 £549 £519
Shropshire median daily rate £469 £506 £358
% change year-on-year -7.31% +41.34% -33.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 1
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +79.64% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £14.00
% change year-on-year +67.70% +123.61% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Telford

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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