Application Security Contracts in the West Midlands

Application Security (AppSec)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 105 104
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +58
Contract jobs citing Application Security 8 7 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.36% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.43% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 26
10th Percentile £456 - £518
25th Percentile £456 £625 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +11.11% +6.36%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £600
90th Percentile - - £744
England median daily rate £575 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% +12.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 84.08% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,080 1,452
10th Percentile £200 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Warwickshire - 6 £800 -
Shropshire - 2 £461 -
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) DataStage
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) QualityStage
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
4 1 (12.50%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (25.00%) Next.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (25.00%) OWASP
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) IBM