Hybrid/Remote Application Security Contract Job Trends

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Application Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 245 201
Rank change year-on-year -32 -44 +43
Contract jobs citing Application Security 62 58 165
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.57% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.64% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 70
10th Percentile £425 £393 £500
25th Percentile £438 £456 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £669
90th Percentile £675 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.95%

All Process & 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 10,436 9,128 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.73% 90.45% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,802 6,248 9,284
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 214 537
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.22
25th Percentile £27.00 £20.63 £23.45
Median hourly rate £57.50 £38.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +51.32% -0.31% -31.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Security and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Application Security job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Security

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Security over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Application Security daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Security

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) Mendix
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) Entra ID
3 7 (11.29%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.84%) IaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Serverless
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) PaaS
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.61%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Network Security
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (3.23%) Internet
5 1 (1.61%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) DNS
5 1 (1.61%) HTTP
5 1 (1.61%) SSL
5 1 (1.61%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.45%) MySQL
2 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) DB2
4 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.61%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) git-flow
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) JUnit
3 1 (1.61%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.61%) sqlmap
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Banking
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Electronics
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Architect
2 16 (25.81%) Security Architect
3 9 (14.52%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Applications Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Application Security Specialist
5 6 (9.68%) Applications Specialist
5 6 (9.68%) Security Solutions Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Security Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.45%) Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) Penetration Tester
7 4 (6.45%) Scala Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Tester
8 3 (4.84%) Applications Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) OAuth
1 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
1 4 (6.45%) OpenID
1 4 (6.45%) Play Framework
1 4 (6.45%) RESTful
1 4 (6.45%) SAML
2 3 (4.84%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) Spring
2 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.23%) Django
3 2 (3.23%) Express.js
3 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.23%) Flutter
3 2 (3.23%) Node.js
3 2 (3.23%) NumPy
3 2 (3.23%) Pandas
3 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.23%) React
3 2 (3.23%) React Native
3 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.23%) Clustering
4 2 (3.23%) CMDB
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
2 15 (24.19%) Security Architecture
3 14 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (20.97%) Agile
4 13 (20.97%) DevOps
4 13 (20.97%) SDLC
5 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
6 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (17.74%) Security Operations
7 10 (16.13%) Incident Response
7 10 (16.13%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (14.52%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.52%) DevSecOps
8 9 (14.52%) Microservices
8 9 (14.52%) Risk Management
8 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.52%) Threat Modelling
8 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Management
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) Python
2 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.45%) Go
3 4 (6.45%) Java
3 4 (6.45%) Scala
4 3 (4.84%) Bicep
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) C-shell
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) Korn
5 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.61%) SQL
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) CISSP
4 5 (8.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (8.06%) CISM
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 4 (6.45%) CSSLP
6 3 (4.84%) CCSP
6 3 (4.84%) CEH
6 3 (4.84%) CISMP
6 3 (4.84%) GCIH
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CREST Certified
7 2 (3.23%) GIAC
7 2 (3.23%) GPEN
7 2 (3.23%) OSCE
7 2 (3.23%) OSCP
7 2 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) NIST
2 9 (14.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (12.90%) GDPR
4 6 (9.68%) GRC
4 6 (9.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (6.45%) SLA
6 3 (4.84%) NIST 800
6 3 (4.84%) QA
6 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.61%) Def Stans
7 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.61%) NCSC
7 1 (1.61%) PMO
7 1 (1.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) SCCM
3 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.23%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.61%) Argo
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.61%) Nessus
5 1 (1.61%) Nmap
5 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.61%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) Splunk
3 3 (4.84%) Okta
3 3 (4.84%) SAP
3 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.23%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) McAfee
4 2 (3.23%) Symantec
5 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.61%) Black Duck
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) Imperva
5 1 (1.61%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.61%) Qualys
5 1 (1.61%) Sybase
5 1 (1.61%) Veracode
5 1 (1.61%) VMware