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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 288 335
Rank change year-on-year -23 +47 -9
Contract jobs citing Application Security 90 143 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.63% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.71% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 107 121
10th Percentile £506 £504 £427
25th Percentile £600 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £650 £586
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +10.92% +11.62%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £650
90th Percentile £739 £838 £719
UK median daily rate £625 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +132.56%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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
North of England +15 37 £650 +7.26% 11
South East +3 23 £650 -7.14% 5
North West +14 18 £676 +11.55% 7
Yorkshire +19 16 £624 +8.43% 4
South West +14 15 £613 -12.50% 2
Scotland +46 8 £623 +42.29%
Midlands -26 7 £650 +7.26% 9
West Midlands -17 6 £650 +9.24% 9
Wales +22 2 £666 +40.26%
North East +2 2 £625 -26.23%
East Midlands +1 1 £567 -6.44%
East of England -1 1 - - 1
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 5 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 21 (23.33%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) GCP
4 8 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.56%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.44%) GitHub
8 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.33%) Kong
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) Network Security
2 9 (10.00%) Firewall
3 8 (8.89%) DNS
3 8 (8.89%) VPN
4 6 (6.67%) Wireless
5 5 (5.56%) HTTPS
6 3 (3.33%) BIG-IP
6 3 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (3.33%) HTTP
6 3 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (3.33%) SSL
6 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.11%) 4G
7 1 (1.11%) 5G
7 1 (1.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) Data Vault
2 3 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.89%) Robot Framework
3 8 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (7.78%) JIRA
5 6 (6.67%) Gradle
5 6 (6.67%) Maven
6 4 (4.44%) GitLab
7 3 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.33%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.33%) Travis CI
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.11%) AppScan
9 1 (1.11%) MSI
9 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.56%) Finance
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Architect
2 28 (31.11%) Security Architect
3 12 (13.33%) Consultant
3 12 (13.33%) Security Consultant
4 10 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 6 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
6 6 (6.67%) Tester
7 5 (5.56%) Applications Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.56%) Site Manager
7 5 (5.56%) Site Reliability Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) DevSecOps Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) OAuth
2 5 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (5.56%) SAML
3 3 (3.33%) JSON
3 3 (3.33%) XML
3 3 (3.33%) YAML
4 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.11%) J2EE
5 1 (1.11%) JWT
5 1 (1.11%) Kafka
5 1 (1.11%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.11%) PKI
3 9 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.89%) Mobile App
5 7 (7.78%) Operational Technology
6 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.44%) CMDB
7 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.33%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.11%) FMCG
10 1 (1.11%) IoT
10 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.11%) Windows
2 14 (15.56%) Linux
3 10 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.67%) Unix
6 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (32.22%) Agile
3 26 (28.89%) Identity Access Management
4 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
4 23 (25.56%) OWASP
5 22 (24.44%) Information Security
6 21 (23.33%) DevSecOps
7 20 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 17 (18.89%) DevOps
8 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (17.78%) Penetration Testing
10 15 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
11 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.56%) Security Architecture
11 14 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
12 12 (13.33%) Roadmaps
12 12 (13.33%) Service Management
13 11 (12.22%) Risk Management
14 10 (11.11%) Scrum
14 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.78%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.11%) Bash
4 7 (7.78%) C++
4 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.78%) Ruby
4 7 (7.78%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (3.33%) ActionScript
6 3 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) Java
7 1 (1.11%) Perl
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
3 7 (7.78%) CISSP
3 7 (7.78%) CREST Certified
3 7 (7.78%) ISACA
3 7 (7.78%) OSCP
4 6 (6.67%) CEH
4 6 (6.67%) CISA
4 6 (6.67%) CISM
4 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) GIAC
4 6 (6.67%) GPEN
4 6 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.67%) MBA
4 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) SANS
6 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.00%) NIST
2 11 (12.22%) COBIT
3 9 (10.00%) GDPR
4 7 (7.78%) RMADS
5 4 (4.44%) QA
6 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.11%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (17.78%) Docker
3 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (24.44%) Terraform
2 19 (21.11%) Ansible
3 12 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.44%) Puppet
6 3 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (3.33%) Kibana
6 3 (3.33%) logstash
6 3 (3.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (2.22%) Graylog
7 2 (2.22%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.22%) Nagios
7 2 (2.22%) Nessus
8 1 (1.11%) Nmap
8 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.11%) WebInspect
8 1 (1.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) VMware
3 5 (5.56%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.33%) F5
4 3 (3.33%) Refinitiv
5 2 (2.22%) Checkmarx
5 2 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Qualys
6 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Veracode