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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 112 125
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 -23
Contract jobs citing Application Security 16 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.94% 0.50% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.55% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £596 £510 £422
25th Percentile £612 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.54% +9.01%
75th Percentile £647 £613 £621
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
England median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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 1,439 2,006 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.95% 90.81% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,312 1,753
10th Percentile £275 £275 £251
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 82
10th Percentile £11.30 £9.80 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.22 £12.51
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -41.75% -8.75%
75th Percentile £20.24 £21.50 £22.48
90th Percentile £53.75 £49.32 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 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 Yorkshire +27 8 £650 +13.04% 4
South Yorkshire - 8 £615 -
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 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 8 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) Kong
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) HTTPS
2 4 (25.00%) Wireless
3 3 (18.75%) BIG-IP
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) HTTP
3 3 (18.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (18.75%) SSL
3 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Applications Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Architect
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) XML
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) J2EE
2 1 (6.25%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (56.25%) DevSecOps
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (37.50%) Information Security
4 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (31.25%) Service Management
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (25.00%) Offensive Security
5 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Red Team
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) Use Case
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) C++
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) ActionScript
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CEH
1 4 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 4 (25.00%) GIAC
1 4 (25.00%) GPEN
1 4 (25.00%) OSCP
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) logstash
2 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) F5
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (6.25%) Rapid7