Application Security Contracts in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 194 316
Rank change year-on-year -75 +122 -23
Contract jobs citing Application Security 127 331 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 1.28% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.41% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 243 242
10th Percentile £469 £488 £416
25th Percentile £540 £533 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £778 £800 £725
90th Percentile £823 £846 £850
England median daily rate £622 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.33% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
England median hourly rate - £66.25 £77.00
% change year-on-year - -13.96% +258.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in London.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in London.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Central London +35 20 £520 -20.00% 3
East London 0 6 £638 -20.31% 3
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.98%) AWS
2 30 (23.62%) Azure
3 19 (14.96%) GCP
4 18 (14.17%) SaaS
5 12 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (9.45%) IaaS
5 12 (9.45%) PaaS
5 12 (9.45%) Serverless
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
7 4 (3.15%) Slack
7 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.15%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.57%) Akamai
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.57%) Bitrise
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.79%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.69%) Firewall
2 8 (6.30%) Network Security
3 6 (4.72%) HTTPS
4 5 (3.94%) DHCP
4 5 (3.94%) DNS
4 5 (3.94%) SD-WAN
4 5 (3.94%) WAN
5 4 (3.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.15%) Internet
5 4 (3.15%) IPv4
6 3 (2.36%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.57%) HTTP
7 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.79%) FTP
8 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.79%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.79%) VPN
8 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) MySQL
1 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.15%) Metadata
3 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) DB2
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Burp Suite
2 5 (3.94%) GitLab
2 5 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.94%) JIRA
3 4 (3.15%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.36%) Git
5 2 (1.57%) Appium
5 2 (1.57%) git-flow
5 2 (1.57%) XCTest
5 2 (1.57%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.79%) AppScan
6 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 43 (33.86%) Finance
2 21 (16.54%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Banking
4 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.15%) Front Office
7 4 (3.15%) Retail
7 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.57%) Publishing
9 1 (0.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 44 (34.65%) Architect
2 34 (26.77%) Security Architect
3 21 (16.54%) Security Engineer
4 16 (12.60%) Applications Engineer
4 16 (12.60%) Senior
5 13 (10.24%) Consultant
5 13 (10.24%) Security Consultant
6 11 (8.66%) Applications Architect
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Architect
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Security Architect
7 10 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (7.09%) Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (6.30%) Cloud Security Architect
10 6 (4.72%) Applications Consultant
11 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) DevSecOps Architect
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.94%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) SailPoint
2 5 (3.94%) CSS
2 5 (3.94%) HTML
3 4 (3.15%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (3.15%) HTML5
3 4 (3.15%) RESTful
4 3 (2.36%) .NET
4 3 (2.36%) Kafka
4 3 (2.36%) OAuth
4 3 (2.36%) OpenID
4 3 (2.36%) SAML
4 3 (2.36%) Web Services
5 2 (1.57%) React Native
5 2 (1.57%) REST
5 2 (1.57%) SwiftUI
5 2 (1.57%) UIKit
6 1 (0.79%) JSON
6 1 (0.79%) Laravel
6 1 (0.79%) Node.js
6 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Mobile App
2 13 (10.24%) IoT
3 8 (6.30%) Security Posture
4 7 (5.51%) PKI
5 5 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.94%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.02%) Linux
2 12 (9.45%) Windows
3 8 (6.30%) Unix
4 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.15%) CentOS
5 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.57%) Android
6 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.92%) Cloud Security
2 36 (28.35%) DevSecOps
3 35 (27.56%) CI/CD
4 34 (26.77%) Static Application Security Testing
5 33 (25.98%) Security Testing
6 30 (23.62%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (23.62%) DevOps
7 29 (22.83%) Information Security
8 27 (21.26%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 27 (21.26%) SDLC
9 26 (20.47%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (19.69%) Security Architecture
10 25 (19.69%) Threat Modelling
11 23 (18.11%) Agile
12 20 (15.75%) Identity Access Management
13 19 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (14.96%) Vulnerability Management
14 16 (12.60%) Design Patterns
15 14 (11.02%) Penetration Testing
16 12 (9.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.17%) Python
2 13 (10.24%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.09%) C++
3 9 (7.09%) Java
4 7 (5.51%) SQL
5 6 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.72%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.94%) Bash
6 5 (3.94%) PHP
7 4 (3.15%) Go
7 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.15%) VBScript
8 3 (2.36%) C
9 2 (1.57%) Perl
9 2 (1.57%) Swift
10 1 (0.79%) C#
10 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (9.45%) CISSP
2 10 (7.87%) CISM
2 10 (7.87%) Degree
3 8 (6.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.51%) CISA
5 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.36%) GIAC
8 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.57%) CCNP
8 2 (1.57%) CEH
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.57%) GCIA
8 2 (1.57%) GCIH
8 2 (1.57%) OSCP
8 2 (1.57%) SANS
9 1 (0.79%) ECSA
9 1 (0.79%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) NIST
2 9 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 8 (6.30%) QA
4 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) GLBA
5 1 (0.79%) GRC
5 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.79%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (13.39%) Terraform
2 11 (8.66%) Ansible
3 8 (6.30%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.94%) Puppet
5 2 (1.57%) Nessus
5 2 (1.57%) SCCM
6 1 (0.79%) CASB
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.79%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.79%) Graylog
6 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.79%) Nagios
6 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) Cisco
2 7 (5.51%) CyberArk
2 7 (5.51%) F5
2 7 (5.51%) Splunk
3 6 (4.72%) BeyondTrust
3 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.94%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.15%) Checkmarx
5 4 (3.15%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.15%) Juniper
5 4 (3.15%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.15%) SAP
5 4 (3.15%) Veracode
6 3 (2.36%) Qualys
7 2 (1.57%) Apple
7 2 (1.57%) Okta
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle
7 2 (1.57%) Trend Micro
7 2 (1.57%) Unisys