Application Security Contracts in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 214 309
Rank change year-on-year -49 +95 -29
Contract jobs citing Application Security 137 307 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 1.22% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.34% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 228 246
10th Percentile £475 £488 £425
25th Percentile £540 £530 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £780 £800 £722
90th Percentile £823 £838 £850
England median daily rate £643 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Application Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +27 22 £645 +7.50% 8
East London -1 5 £650 -18.75% 1
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) AWS
2 32 (23.36%) Azure
3 19 (13.87%) GCP
4 18 (13.14%) SaaS
5 12 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (8.76%) IaaS
5 12 (8.76%) PaaS
5 12 (8.76%) Serverless
6 7 (5.11%) GitHub
7 5 (3.65%) WhatsApp
8 4 (2.92%) Slack
8 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.46%) Akamai
10 2 (1.46%) Bitrise
10 2 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.73%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.79%) Firewall
2 8 (5.84%) Network Security
3 6 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (4.38%) HTTPS
3 6 (4.38%) Internet
4 5 (3.65%) SD-WAN
4 5 (3.65%) WAN
5 3 (2.19%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.46%) DHCP
6 2 (1.46%) DNS
6 2 (1.46%) HTTP
6 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.46%) VPN
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.73%) FTP
7 1 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.73%) IPv4
7 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) MySQL
1 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.92%) Metadata
3 2 (1.46%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.73%) DB2
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Burp Suite
2 6 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.65%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.65%) JIRA
4 4 (2.92%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.19%) Git
6 2 (1.46%) Appium
6 2 (1.46%) git-flow
6 2 (1.46%) XCTest
6 2 (1.46%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.73%) AppScan
7 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 23 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.87%) Banking
4 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.38%) Front Office
6 6 (4.38%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.46%) Publishing
9 1 (0.73%) Back Office
9 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 50 (36.50%) Architect
2 36 (26.28%) Security Architect
3 26 (18.98%) Security Engineer
4 17 (12.41%) Applications Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) Consultant
5 16 (11.68%) Security Consultant
6 15 (10.95%) Senior
7 14 (10.22%) Applications Architect
7 14 (10.22%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (8.03%) DevSecOps Architect
9 9 (6.57%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.84%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Architect
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Security Architect
11 7 (5.11%) Applications Consultant
11 7 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Information Architect
12 6 (4.38%) Network Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Support Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.38%) CSS
1 6 (4.38%) HTML
2 5 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (3.65%) HTML5
3 4 (2.92%) Kafka
3 4 (2.92%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.19%) .NET
4 3 (2.19%) Web Services
5 2 (1.46%) React Native
5 2 (1.46%) REST
5 2 (1.46%) RESTful
5 2 (1.46%) SwiftUI
5 2 (1.46%) UIKit
6 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.73%) JSON
6 1 (0.73%) Node.js
6 1 (0.73%) OAuth
6 1 (0.73%) OpenID
6 1 (0.73%) SAML
6 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Mobile App
2 13 (9.49%) IoT
3 8 (5.84%) Hedge funds
4 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.38%) PKI
5 6 (4.38%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Linux
2 10 (7.30%) Windows
3 7 (5.11%) Unix
4 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.65%) CentOS
5 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.46%) Android
6 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.85%) CI/CD
2 43 (31.39%) DevSecOps
3 39 (28.47%) Static Application Security Testing
4 38 (27.74%) Cloud Security
4 38 (27.74%) Security Testing
5 35 (25.55%) DevOps
6 33 (24.09%) SDLC
7 32 (23.36%) Agile
7 32 (23.36%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 30 (21.90%) Information Security
9 29 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (18.98%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (18.25%) Security Architecture
12 24 (17.52%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (16.79%) Penetration Testing
13 23 (16.79%) Threat Modelling
14 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (13.87%) Identity Access Management
16 16 (11.68%) Design Patterns
17 15 (10.95%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.33%) Python
2 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.30%) C++
3 10 (7.30%) Java
4 8 (5.84%) SQL
5 7 (5.11%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.38%) Bash
7 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.65%) PHP
7 5 (3.65%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.92%) Go
9 3 (2.19%) C
10 2 (1.46%) Perl
10 2 (1.46%) Swift
11 1 (0.73%) C#
11 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
11 1 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.68%) CISSP
2 14 (10.22%) CISM
3 11 (8.03%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.57%) CISA
5 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.38%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.92%) GIAC
8 3 (2.19%) CCNP
8 3 (2.19%) CEH
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.19%) SANS
9 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.46%) CRISC
9 2 (1.46%) GCIA
9 2 (1.46%) GCIH
9 2 (1.46%) OSCP
10 1 (0.73%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.87%) NIST
2 13 (9.49%) QA
3 12 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (2.92%) GDPR
5 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.73%) GLBA
8 1 (0.73%) GRC
8 1 (0.73%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) Terraform
2 13 (9.49%) Ansible
3 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.11%) Puppet
4 2 (1.46%) SCCM
5 1 (0.73%) CASB
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.73%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.73%) Graylog
5 1 (0.73%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.73%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.73%) Nagios
5 1 (0.73%) Nessus
5 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.73%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.57%) Cisco
2 9 (6.57%) F5
3 7 (5.11%) Fortinet
3 7 (5.11%) Splunk
4 6 (4.38%) Checkmarx
4 6 (4.38%) Juniper
4 6 (4.38%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.38%) Veracode
5 5 (3.65%) CyberArk
5 5 (3.65%) Qualys
5 5 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (2.92%) SAP
6 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.19%) Unisys
8 2 (1.46%) Apple
8 2 (1.46%) Okta
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle
8 2 (1.46%) Rapid7