Application Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 285 309
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 +58
Contract jobs citing Application Security 73 97 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.50% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.61% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 95
10th Percentile £376 £410 £500
25th Percentile £447 £567 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -7.41% +16.38%
75th Percentile £708 £675 £744
90th Percentile £800 £788 £838
UK median daily rate £585 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -6.40% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - -
Median hourly rate £73.75 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,515 16,031 20,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.28% 83.03% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,166 9,637 13,533
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,272 1,742 1,234
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% - +83.65%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 26 July 2025.

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 26 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
South East +21 21 £498 -14.41% 39
North of England -28 17 £675 +10.02% 21
West Midlands +2 13 £713 +9.62% 7
Midlands +1 13 £713 +9.62% 8
South West +25 12 £447 -28.48% 10
North West -2 7 £708 +23.13% 11
Yorkshire -22 6 £368 -40.02% 10
North East -2 4 £738 +18.00%
Scotland -12 4 £540 -13.25% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
East of England +14 2 - - 8
Wales +5 1 £650 -2.44% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.37%) SAS
1 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) Azure
2 20 (27.40%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) GCP
4 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) IaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.37%) Datadog
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) Network Security
2 11 (15.07%) Firewall
3 4 (5.48%) HTTP
3 4 (5.48%) Internet
3 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) MySQL
2 6 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.85%) DB2
3 5 (6.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.74%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) DataStage
6 1 (1.37%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) CocoaPods
2 2 (2.74%) Gradle
2 2 (2.74%) Rational Statemate
2 2 (2.74%) Xcode
3 1 (1.37%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Maven
3 1 (1.37%) Mocha
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
3 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) Automotive
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (36.99%) Architect
2 23 (31.51%) Security Architect
3 14 (19.18%) Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Security Consultant
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Security Architect
7 5 (6.85%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Business IT Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Business Support Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Business Systems Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) IT Support
7 5 (6.85%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Systems Support
7 5 (6.85%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) FastAPI
2 8 (10.96%) OpenID
3 6 (8.22%) RESTful
4 4 (5.48%) JSON
4 4 (5.48%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (4.11%) CSS
5 3 (4.11%) HTML
6 2 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (2.74%) Next.js
6 2 (2.74%) OAuth
6 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.74%) React
7 1 (1.37%) Flask
7 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.37%) Jest
7 1 (1.37%) Loki
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Security Posture
2 11 (15.07%) Onboarding
3 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (8.22%) Operational Technology
4 6 (8.22%) SCADA
5 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.48%) Cyberattack
6 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
7 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.74%) FPGA
8 2 (2.74%) IoT
8 2 (2.74%) Verilog
8 2 (2.74%) VHDL
9 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
1 4 (5.48%) Unix
2 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Cloud Security
2 19 (26.03%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (24.66%) Security Architecture
4 15 (20.55%) Data Security
4 15 (20.55%) DevOps
5 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.44%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (16.44%) Threat Modelling
7 11 (15.07%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (12.33%) Agile
8 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
8 9 (12.33%) DevSecOps
8 9 (12.33%) Microservices
8 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.96%) Blue-Green Deployment
10 7 (9.59%) Client Onboarding
10 7 (9.59%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.59%) Service Delivery
10 7 (9.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) C#
3 6 (8.22%) Java
4 5 (6.85%) SQL
5 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.74%) C
6 2 (2.74%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.74%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.74%) Swift
6 2 (2.74%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) CISSP
4 6 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (8.22%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) CCSP
5 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CEH
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.37%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) OSCE
6 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) NIST
2 11 (15.07%) QA
3 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
5 4 (5.48%) GDPR
5 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.11%) PSD2
7 2 (2.74%) COBIT
8 1 (1.37%) COSO
8 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.59%) MIIS
3 2 (2.74%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (1.37%) CASB
4 1 (1.37%) Control-M
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.37%) Puppet
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Liquidlogic
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.11%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco
5 2 (2.74%) Citrix
5 2 (2.74%) Intel
5 2 (2.74%) McAfee
5 2 (2.74%) Microsemi
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.37%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.37%) BMC
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) Qualys