Application Security Contracts in Yorkshire

Application Security (AppSec)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 90 107 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing Application Security 15 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.90% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.55% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £593 £510 £418
25th Percentile £612 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -2.54% +21.03%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £626
90th Percentile - £638 £665
England median daily rate £622 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.33% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,432 2,016 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.95% 90.85% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,327 1,776
10th Percentile £275 £275 £261
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.97% +10.51%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £561
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -9.74%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.50
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Yorkshire

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Yorkshire

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in Yorkshire

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £615 -
West Yorkshire +25 7 £650 +13.04% 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 4 (26.67%) Wireless
3 3 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) HTTP
3 3 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (20.00%) SSL
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (20.00%) JSON
1 3 (20.00%) XML
1 3 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (33.33%) Information Security
3 5 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (26.67%) Offensive Security
4 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Red Team
5 3 (20.00%) API Integration
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C++
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CEH
1 4 (26.67%) CREST Certified
1 4 (26.67%) GIAC
1 4 (26.67%) GPEN
1 4 (26.67%) OSCP
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
2 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (20.00%) Grafana
1 3 (20.00%) Kibana
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) logstash
1 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (20.00%) Puppet
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) F5
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk