Application Security Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Application Security (AppSec)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.20% 0.89% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.03% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £716 £605 £593
25th Percentile £722 £613 £759
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £625 £847
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -26.23% +18.91%
75th Percentile £747 £638 £850
90th Percentile £749 £645 £861
North East median daily rate £738 £625 £847
% change year-on-year +18.00% -26.23% +18.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 194 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 86.61% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 89 175
10th Percentile £200 £312 £321
25th Percentile £358 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £640 £632 £750
North East median daily rate £460 £475 £512
% change year-on-year -3.16% -7.14% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 6
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £17.50
25th Percentile £13.37 £12.13 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -1.27% +24.53%
75th Percentile £19.97 £49.69 £29.06
90th Percentile £26.90 £69.13 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.82% -25.00% +57.58%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Tyne and Wear

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Tyne and Wear

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 3 £738 +18.00% 4
Application Security
North East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft