Application Security Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Application Security (AppSec)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Application Security 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 0.55% - 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £660
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.96%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - £758
West Midlands median daily rate £604 £371 £725
% change year-on-year +62.69% -48.79% +20.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 469 387 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 86.21% 86.58% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 224 213
10th Percentile £325 £406 £220
25th Percentile £413 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £613 £628 £688
90th Percentile £725 £675 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +4.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 5
10th Percentile £16.13 £14.31 £20.50
25th Percentile £29.50 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.60 £32.28 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -6.43% +109.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - - £36.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.56% +0.61% +41.08%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Application Security job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Application Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Application Security

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Warwick - 1 £800 -
Application Security
West Midlands

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) IT Architect
2 2 (66.67%) IT Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST