Application Security Contracts in the North of England

Application Security (AppSec)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 156 170 192
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Application Security 30 43 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.77% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.85% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 36
10th Percentile £273 £513 £426
25th Percentile £588 £580 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £606 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +2.71% +1.29%
75th Percentile £670 £725 £650
90th Percentile £718 £848 £688
England median daily rate £622 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.33% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +17 15 £622 +8.17% 4
North West +7 13 £663 +9.41% 12
North East +8 2 £625 -26.23% 3
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) Kong
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Wireless
2 5 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (10.00%) HTTP
3 3 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (10.00%) SSL
3 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (10.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) Travis CI
2 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Architect
1 5 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 5 (16.67%) Tester
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Security Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Security Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Compliance Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Data Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Market Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Market Data Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Market Data Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Market Data Support Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) XML
1 3 (10.00%) YAML
2 1 (3.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 6 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 8 (26.67%) DevSecOps
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Red Team
5 6 (20.00%) Business Case
5 6 (20.00%) Business Development
5 6 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 6 (20.00%) Offensive Security
5 6 (20.00%) Pricing Strategy
5 6 (20.00%) Threat Management
5 6 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (16.67%) Information Security
6 5 (16.67%) Service Management
7 4 (13.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) C++
2 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) ActionScript
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) CEH
1 6 (20.00%) CISA
1 6 (20.00%) CISM
1 6 (20.00%) CISSP
1 6 (20.00%) CREST Certified
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
1 6 (20.00%) GIAC
1 6 (20.00%) GPEN
1 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 6 (20.00%) MBA
1 6 (20.00%) OSCP
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (10.00%) Grafana
1 3 (10.00%) Kibana
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) logstash
1 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (10.00%) Puppet
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
1 3 (10.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (10.00%) F5
2 3 (10.00%) Refinitiv
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk