Application Security Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 227 250
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +85
Contract jobs citing Application Security 64 118 243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.88% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 69 190
10th Percentile £410 £500 £462
25th Percentile £456 £540 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £667
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -9.98% +11.08%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £750
90th Percentile £800 £750 £821
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £640
% change year-on-year -4.17% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - £66.25
% change year-on-year - - +47.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Application Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Security trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Application Security.

Application Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Application Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Application Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Application Security.

Application Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.56%) Confluence
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.56%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure AKS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (9.38%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) SaaS
5 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.13%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.13%) Slack
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.56%) OCI
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.13%) Network Security
2 6 (9.38%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) NGFW
3 2 (3.13%) SSL
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.56%) Skype
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.56%) DataStage
2 1 (1.56%) DB2
2 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.56%) QualityStage
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Hudson
2 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) JUnit
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.56%) Games
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Architect
2 12 (18.75%) Security Architect
3 11 (17.19%) Consultant
4 9 (14.06%) Security Consultant
5 7 (10.94%) Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Lead
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Information Security Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Security Technical Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Technical Security Consultant
9 3 (4.69%) Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Geospatial Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) SAML
2 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.69%) Godot
2 3 (4.69%) OpenID
2 3 (4.69%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (3.13%) .NET
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
3 2 (3.13%) MapLibre
3 2 (3.13%) React
3 2 (3.13%) REST
3 2 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.56%) ADO
4 1 (1.56%) Ajax
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Symfony
4 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.56%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.81%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) SCADA
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.56%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) DevSecOps
2 16 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 15 (23.44%) OWASP
4 14 (21.88%) DevOps
4 14 (21.88%) Information Security
5 13 (20.31%) Cloud Security
5 13 (20.31%) Security Testing
6 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
7 11 (17.19%) Agile
7 11 (17.19%) Security Architecture
7 11 (17.19%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (14.06%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 7 (10.94%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 6 (9.38%) Penetration Testing
11 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.38%) SDLC
11 6 (9.38%) Secure Coding
11 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) C#
3 4 (6.25%) Bash
3 4 (6.25%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) SQL
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.13%) PHP
5 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.56%) C++
6 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.56%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.56%) Rust
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.63%) CISSP
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) CISM
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.69%) CEH
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CCNP
6 2 (3.13%) CISA
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) OSCE
7 1 (1.56%) OSCP
7 1 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) NIST
2 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) NCSC
3 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) COBIT
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) FedRAMP
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Terraform
3 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.69%) MIIS
5 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.56%) CASB
6 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Qualys
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.56%) Netskope
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Wyse