Application Security Contracts in the Midlands

Application Security (AppSec)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 127 118 176
Rank change year-on-year -9 +58 -29
Contract jobs citing Application Security 8 48 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 1.47% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.67% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 35 14
10th Percentile £596 £518 £478
25th Percentile £625 £540 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £595 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +10.19% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £620 £597
90th Percentile - £745 £625
England median daily rate £622 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.33% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,216 2,879 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.20% 88.23% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,017 3,226
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.86 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.52 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +13.09%
75th Percentile £33.25 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the Midlands

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the Midlands

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the Midlands

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -6 7 £650 +9.24% 8
East Midlands +7 1 £567 -6.44% 1
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) CloudFront
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Network Security
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Data Security
2 5 (62.50%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
2 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
2 5 (62.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
94 Application Security jobs in England