Application Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 306 337
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing Application Security 98 138 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.58% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 95 132
10th Percentile £500 £493 £427
25th Percentile £569 £540 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +4.87% +9.21%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £708 £838 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
South East +32 48 £513 -26.79% 20
North of England +18 26 £650 +4.00% 14
Yorkshire +28 12 £615 +6.96% 7
North West +21 12 £676 +8.16% 5
Scotland +39 9 £623 +24.50%
Midlands -8 8 £650 +13.04% 7
West Midlands -1 7 £650 +11.11% 7
South West +18 5 £400 -38.46% 6
North East +15 2 £625 -26.23% 2
Wales +15 2 £666 +40.26% 1
East of England +4 2 £850 +21.43% 5
East Midlands +15 1 £567 +8.00%
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.55%) AWS
2 22 (22.45%) Azure
2 22 (22.45%) PaaS
2 22 (22.45%) SaaS
3 21 (21.43%) IaaS
4 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.14%) Serverless
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.12%) GCP
5 6 (6.12%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.10%) Azure API Management
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.10%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.43%) 5G
1 21 (21.43%) Broadband
2 15 (15.31%) Network Security
3 10 (10.20%) Firewall
4 6 (6.12%) Wireless
5 5 (5.10%) DNS
5 5 (5.10%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.04%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.04%) MySQL
4 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Robot Framework
1 8 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (7.14%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.12%) Gradle
3 6 (6.12%) Maven
3 6 (6.12%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.06%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.04%) JIRA
5 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.02%) AppScan
6 1 (1.02%) GitLab
6 1 (1.02%) MSI
6 1 (1.02%) rollup.js
6 1 (1.02%) Subversion
6 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 21 (21.43%) Law
1 21 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.16%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Retail
5 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 3 (3.06%) Banking
6 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Automotive
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Penetration Tester
1 27 (27.55%) Tester
2 22 (22.45%) Architect
2 22 (22.45%) Security Specialist
3 21 (21.43%) Security Penetration Tester
3 21 (21.43%) Security Tester
3 21 (21.43%) Testing Specialist
4 18 (18.37%) Security Architect
5 11 (11.22%) Consultant
5 11 (11.22%) Security Consultant
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Security Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 6 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 5 (5.10%) Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Security Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Site Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Manager
11 4 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) Web Services
2 8 (8.16%) OAuth
3 5 (5.10%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.10%) OAuth2
3 5 (5.10%) SAML
4 3 (3.06%) .NET
4 3 (3.06%) JSON
4 3 (3.06%) OpenID
4 3 (3.06%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) SOAP
4 3 (3.06%) XML
5 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.02%) CSS
6 1 (1.02%) Enzyme
6 1 (1.02%) Jest
6 1 (1.02%) Next.js
6 1 (1.02%) React
6 1 (1.02%) Redux
6 1 (1.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.59%) Mobile App
2 15 (15.31%) Cloud Native
3 13 (13.27%) Data Centre
4 9 (9.18%) PKI
5 7 (7.14%) Operational Technology
6 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.06%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.02%) FMCG
9 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.02%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.63%) Windows
2 17 (17.35%) Linux
3 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.18%) Unix
5 8 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (47.96%) OWASP
3 36 (36.73%) Penetration Testing
4 34 (34.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (33.67%) Security Testing
6 22 (22.45%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (21.43%) Agile
7 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 21 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 19 (19.39%) Cloud Security
8 19 (19.39%) Information Security
9 16 (16.33%) DevOps
10 14 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (12.24%) Service Management
12 11 (11.22%) DevSecOps
12 11 (11.22%) Risk Management
12 11 (11.22%) Security Architecture
13 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.20%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Python
2 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.14%) Bash
3 7 (7.14%) C++
3 7 (7.14%) Ruby
3 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.12%) Groovy
4 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.10%) C#
6 3 (3.06%) SQL
7 1 (1.02%) C
7 1 (1.02%) Java
7 1 (1.02%) Perl
7 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 28 (28.57%) OSCP
3 27 (27.55%) GIAC
3 27 (27.55%) GPEN
4 23 (23.47%) SANS
5 8 (8.16%) ISACA
6 7 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 7 (7.14%) CEH
6 7 (7.14%) CISSP
6 7 (7.14%) Degree
7 6 (6.12%) CISA
7 6 (6.12%) CISM
7 6 (6.12%) Master's Degree
7 6 (6.12%) MBA
7 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (31.63%) GDPR
2 22 (22.45%) PCI DSS
3 21 (21.43%) NCSC
4 18 (18.37%) NIST
5 11 (11.22%) COBIT
6 7 (7.14%) RMADS
7 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.24%) Docker
3 8 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Terraform
2 16 (16.33%) Ansible
3 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.04%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Graylog
4 2 (2.04%) HP Fortify
4 2 (2.04%) Nagios
4 2 (2.04%) Nessus
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.04%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (1.02%) Nmap
5 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.02%) Puppet
5 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.02%) WebInspect
5 1 (1.02%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Virgin Media
2 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.16%) VMware
4 3 (3.06%) F5
5 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.04%) Checkmarx
5 2 (2.04%) Refinitiv
5 2 (2.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Adobe
6 1 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Veracode