Application Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 254 242 328
Rank change year-on-year -12 +86 0
Contract jobs citing Application Security 87 227 313
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.92% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.02% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 181 226
10th Percentile £500 £500 £445
25th Percentile £539 £600 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £820 £750
UK median daily rate £614 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -1.84% +4.17% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41.00
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £49.00
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +32.50% +62.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Application Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Application Security over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Application Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.15%) Confluence
1 1 (1.15%) IBM Notes
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.15%) SAS
1 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.23%) Azure
2 29 (33.33%) AWS
3 18 (20.69%) GCP
4 8 (9.20%) SaaS
5 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.90%) Serverless
6 5 (5.75%) Azure API Management
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.75%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (2.30%) Bitrise
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) Firewall
2 7 (8.05%) Network Security
2 7 (8.05%) VPN
3 6 (6.90%) DNS
4 3 (3.45%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.45%) Wireless
5 1 (1.15%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.15%) HTTP
5 1 (1.15%) Internet
5 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.15%) SSL
5 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) GitLab
1 6 (6.90%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (2.30%) Appium
4 2 (2.30%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.30%) git-flow
4 2 (2.30%) XCTest
4 2 (2.30%) XCUITest
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) rollup.js
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.15%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.64%) Banking
5 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (8.05%) Retail
7 4 (4.60%) Automotive
8 2 (2.30%) Electronics
8 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.30%) Publishing
9 1 (1.15%) Back Office
9 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.15%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Architect
2 13 (14.94%) Security Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Consultant
3 12 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.64%) Security Consultant
5 8 (9.20%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Security Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Information Security Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) Integration Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Security Project Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) SailPoint
2 8 (9.20%) OAuth
3 5 (5.75%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.75%) OAuth2
3 5 (5.75%) REST
3 5 (5.75%) SAML
4 4 (4.60%) .NET
4 4 (4.60%) JSON
4 4 (4.60%) XML
5 3 (3.45%) OpenID
5 3 (3.45%) SOAP
6 2 (2.30%) CSS
6 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.30%) React Native
6 2 (2.30%) SwiftUI
6 2 (2.30%) UIKit
7 1 (1.15%) Enzyme
7 1 (1.15%) Jest
7 1 (1.15%) React
7 1 (1.15%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.30%) IoT
5 2 (2.30%) PKI
5 2 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) FMCG
6 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.15%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.24%) Windows
2 7 (8.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.30%) Android
3 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 37 (42.53%) DevOps
3 29 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 26 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (26.44%) Security Testing
6 20 (22.99%) Information Security
6 20 (22.99%) SDLC
7 19 (21.84%) Agile
7 19 (21.84%) DevSecOps
8 18 (20.69%) Containerisation
8 18 (20.69%) Static Application Security Testing
9 17 (19.54%) Penetration Testing
10 15 (17.24%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 15 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (14.94%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (14.94%) High Availability
11 13 (14.94%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (14.94%) Migration
11 13 (14.94%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
1 8 (9.20%) Python
2 6 (6.90%) SQL
3 4 (4.60%) C#
3 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.45%) C++
5 2 (2.30%) Bash
5 2 (2.30%) PHP
5 2 (2.30%) Swift
6 1 (1.15%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.20%) AWS Certification
2 7 (8.05%) CISSP
3 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) CISM
5 3 (3.45%) CEH
5 3 (3.45%) CREST Certified
5 3 (3.45%) CRISC
5 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) GIAC
5 3 (3.45%) GPEN
5 3 (3.45%) OSCP
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CAPM
6 1 (1.15%) Degree
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) MBA
6 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.54%) NIST
2 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (2.30%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (2.30%) COBIT
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.15%) GLBA
5 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.15%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (12.64%) Docker
2 10 (11.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Terraform
2 7 (8.05%) Ansible
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
3 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.30%) Puppet
3 2 (2.30%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) CASB
4 1 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.15%) Graylog
4 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.15%) Kibana
4 1 (1.15%) logstash
4 1 (1.15%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.15%) Nagios
4 1 (1.15%) Nmap
4 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) BeyondTrust
1 12 (13.79%) CyberArk
1 12 (13.79%) ServiceNow
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.45%) Checkmarx
3 3 (3.45%) Splunk
3 3 (3.45%) Veracode
4 2 (2.30%) Apple
4 2 (2.30%) Cisco
4 2 (2.30%) F5
4 2 (2.30%) Qualys
4 2 (2.30%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.15%) Adobe
5 1 (1.15%) Juniper
5 1 (1.15%) Lotus
5 1 (1.15%) McAfee
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.15%) Remedy
5 1 (1.15%) Siebel