Application Security Contracts in the North West

Application Security (AppSec)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -26
Contract jobs citing Application Security 13 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.49% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.79% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 18
10th Percentile £200 £543 £426
25th Percentile £475 £586 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £606 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +3.15% -0.21%
75th Percentile £698 £660 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £679
England median daily rate £622 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.33% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,277 2,793 3,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.86% 90.24% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,960 2,613
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 169
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.56 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the North West

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in the North West

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in the North West

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in the North West

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cheshire -5 8 £676 +11.55% 4
Merseyside - 3 £200 -
Manchester +12 2 £613 -11.71% 7
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Project Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Security Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Security Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Compliance Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Market Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Market Data Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Market Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Market Data Support Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) Business Case
2 6 (46.15%) Business Development
2 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
2 6 (46.15%) Pricing Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Threat Management
3 3 (23.08%) EAI
3 3 (23.08%) Internal Audit
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) OWASP
5 1 (7.69%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CISA
1 6 (46.15%) CISM
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Master's Degree
1 6 (46.15%) MBA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
2 1 (7.69%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
2 3 (23.08%) Refinitiv