Application Security Contract Job Trends in West London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.41% 0.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £570 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 - -
75th Percentile £820 - -
90th Percentile £883 - -
London median daily rate £600 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 239 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.38% 87.23% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 143 186
10th Percentile £225 £215 £250
25th Percentile £400 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -11.58% -15.56%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £588
90th Percentile £775 £550 £650
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 17
10th Percentile £14.33 £25.00 £19.70
25th Percentile £14.80 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £16.15 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.81% -32.93% -47.92%
75th Percentile £27.17 £34.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £29.88 £46.00 £70.80
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in West London

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Application Security

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in West London over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in West London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. 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
Hillingdon -10 1 £488 - 1
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Programme Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS