Application Security Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Application Security (AppSec)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 53 77
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +36
Contract jobs citing Application Security 7 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.76% 1.99% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 0
10th Percentile £491 £394 -
25th Percentile £502 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.69% - -
75th Percentile £566 £456 -
90th Percentile £584 £475 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £438 £1,750
% change year-on-year +14.29% -75.00% +218.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 610 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.62% 86.77% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 380 667
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £681 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £14.63 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £27.63 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +0.88%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in West Yorkshire

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Leeds -23 6 £538 +22.86% 7
Huddersfield - 1 £500 -
Application Security
Yorkshire

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Flash
1 2 (28.57%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blockchain
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
3 4 (57.14%) Data Security
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
3 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) KYC
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Rust
1 2 (28.57%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCSK
2 2 (28.57%) CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
2 2 (28.57%) CISA
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) OSCP
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) PSD2
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) McAfee
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft