Secure Coding Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Code Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 686 684
Rank change year-on-year +141 -2 -108
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 222 65 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 90 41 125
10th Percentile £45,875 £41,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £84,919 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +17.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Secure Coding is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +109 77 £79,842 +62.94% 6
North West +61 54 £61,206 -18.39% 5
South West +3 54 £67,500 +42.11% 6
South East +41 28 £70,000 -12.50% 5
Scotland - 21 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +95 19 £79,842 +85.68% 1
Midlands +7 19 £79,842 +38.86% 3
Northern Ireland +36 12 - - 1
West Midlands +21 10 £79,842 +52.08% 2
Wales +18 9 - - 1
East Midlands -14 9 - - 1
North East - 6 £79,842 -
East of England - 2 £63,750 - 2
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (2.25%) nginx
2 3 (1.35%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 160 (72.07%) AWS
2 91 (40.99%) Azure
3 20 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.50%) Google Play
5 5 (2.25%) npm
6 4 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.80%) GitHub
7 3 (1.35%) Azure AKS
7 3 (1.35%) GCP
7 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.35%) Serverless
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.90%) Firebase
8 2 (0.90%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.90%) PaaS
8 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.06%) SD-WAN
1 29 (13.06%) WAN
2 10 (4.50%) Firewall
2 10 (4.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.80%) Internet
3 4 (1.80%) Network Security
3 4 (1.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.45%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.45%) Modbus
4 1 (0.45%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) Wireless
4 1 (0.45%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (41.89%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (39.19%) Oracle Database
2 87 (39.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 18 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.41%) MySQL
5 5 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.90%) Big Data
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.45%) GIS
9 1 (0.45%) Power BI
9 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (11.26%) Git
2 17 (7.66%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.50%) Appium
4 6 (2.70%) JIRA
5 5 (2.25%) webpack
6 1 (0.45%) Moq
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Sourcetree
General
1 32 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.36%) Finance
3 10 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.80%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.90%) Banking
6 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.90%) Law
6 2 (0.90%) Legal
6 2 (0.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.45%) Advertising
7 1 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.45%) Electronics
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
7 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 147 (66.22%) Developer
2 119 (53.60%) Senior
3 107 (48.20%) Senior Developer
4 87 (39.19%) Database Developer
4 87 (39.19%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 77 (34.68%) Senior Database Developer
6 41 (18.47%) Architect
6 41 (18.47%) Security Architect
7 26 (11.71%) Lead
8 25 (11.26%) Software Engineer
9 23 (10.36%) Lead Architect
9 23 (10.36%) Lead Security Architect
10 14 (6.31%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.95%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.50%) Android Developer
12 10 (4.50%) Oracle Developer
12 10 (4.50%) Senior Android Developer
12 10 (4.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 7 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (2.70%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.77%) React
2 32 (14.41%) .NET
3 29 (13.06%) AngularJS
4 24 (10.81%) CSS
5 23 (10.36%) ASP.NET
6 22 (9.91%) HTML
7 21 (9.46%) jQuery
7 21 (9.46%) Vue
8 15 (6.76%) ASP.NET MVC
8 15 (6.76%) KnockoutJS
9 12 (5.41%) Spring
10 10 (4.50%) Android SDK
10 10 (4.50%) JSON
10 10 (4.50%) REST
11 7 (3.15%) Laravel
12 6 (2.70%) OAuth
12 6 (2.70%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.25%) HTML5
13 5 (2.25%) LESS
13 5 (2.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 29 (13.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.80%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.35%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.90%) Life Science
8 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.45%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Android
2 6 (2.70%) Linux
3 5 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.80%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.35%) Windows
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (51.35%) Unit Testing
2 109 (49.10%) Actionable Insight
3 89 (40.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 88 (39.64%) Migration
5 87 (39.19%) Data Migration
5 87 (39.19%) Performance Tuning
6 57 (25.68%) Agile
7 51 (22.97%) DevOps
8 47 (21.17%) CI/CD
9 46 (20.72%) OWASP
10 43 (19.37%) Clean Code
11 39 (17.57%) Application Security
11 39 (17.57%) Information Security
12 36 (16.22%) Design Patterns
13 35 (15.77%) Security Architecture
14 31 (13.96%) Software Engineering
15 29 (13.06%) Identity Management
15 29 (13.06%) MVC
16 26 (11.71%) SDLC
17 24 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (46.40%) SQL
2 87 (39.19%) PL/SQL
3 42 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 33 (14.86%) C#
5 24 (10.81%) Java
6 20 (9.01%) Python
7 10 (4.50%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.60%) PHP
10 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.80%) Swift
10 4 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (19.82%) CISSP
2 37 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 34 (15.32%) CISM
4 33 (14.86%) Azure Certification
5 31 (13.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 31 (13.96%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (13.06%) CCSK
6 29 (13.06%) CCSP
7 22 (9.91%) Security Cleared
8 15 (6.76%) Degree
9 11 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (4.50%) SC Cleared
11 9 (4.05%) CISA
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.90%) CEH
12 2 (0.90%) CRISC
12 2 (0.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.57%) QA
2 35 (15.77%) NIST
3 15 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) MISRA
7 1 (0.45%) MISRA C
System Software
1 30 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.06%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.70%) Nessus
4 4 (1.80%) Suricata
4 4 (1.80%) Terraform
5 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Grafana
5 2 (0.90%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) logstash
5 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 97 (43.69%) Oracle
2 28 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.86%) Google
4 6 (2.70%) Splunk
5 4 (1.80%) Cisco
5 4 (1.80%) Juniper
5 4 (1.80%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.45%) ESRI
6 1 (0.45%) Renesas
6 1 (0.45%) Xamarin