Application Security Contracts in the Thames Valley

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 115 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +34
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Application Security 14 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.42% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £495 - £218
25th Percentile £525 £506 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £675 £584 -
90th Percentile £735 £624 -
South East median daily rate £498 £581 £700
% change year-on-year -14.41% -16.96% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,889 2,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.67% 84.59% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,073 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 104 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £25.12 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.19 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.03% +14.39% +153.16%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.53 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the Thames Valley

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Security

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the Thames Valley

Application Security
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +18 9 £575 +12.20% 6
Oxfordshire - 5 - - 3
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Gradle
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
1 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business IT Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Support Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Systems Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) IT Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Security Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Support Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Support
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) HTML CSS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) HTML Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Ajax
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Axis
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) DWR
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JDBC
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) jQuery
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) JSP
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) Servlets
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
2 5 (35.71%) Change Control
2 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (35.71%) Information Management
2 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
2 5 (35.71%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (35.71%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (35.71%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (35.71%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (35.71%) Process Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Release Management
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) Information Security
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
1 3 (21.43%) CCSP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) NIST
3 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 3 (21.43%) PSD2
4 1 (7.14%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Liquidlogic
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk