Secure Code Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 609 755 775
Rank change year-on-year +146 +20 -80
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 296 216 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 133 97 251
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +19.34%
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +139 232 £70,996 -5.34% 46
Work from Home +239 222 £67,500 -15.63% 22
UK excluding London +167 220 £70,000 +21.74% 27
North of England +117 77 £79,842 +75.48% 5
North West +61 54 £61,206 -18.39% 2
South West +32 53 £68,750 +44.74% 8
London +53 47 £79,842 -6.07% 20
South East +49 26 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Scotland - 21 £60,000 -
Midlands +12 20 £64,921 +12.91% 4
Yorkshire +106 19 £79,842 +85.68% 3
Northern Ireland +37 12 - - 1
West Midlands +30 10 £79,842 +52.08% 3
East Midlands -14 10 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Wales +19 9 - - 2
North East - 6 £79,842 -
East of England - 2 £63,750 - 3

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.69%) nginx
2 3 (1.01%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 198 (66.89%) AWS
2 110 (37.16%) Azure
3 22 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (6.42%) Serverless
5 16 (5.41%) GitHub
6 12 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.72%) SaaS
8 10 (3.38%) Google Play
9 9 (3.04%) GCP
9 9 (3.04%) PaaS
10 7 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.36%) IaaS
11 6 (2.03%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.03%) Azure Service Fabric
11 6 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.03%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.69%) npm
13 4 (1.35%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.50%) WAN
2 33 (11.15%) SD-WAN
3 13 (4.39%) Firewall
4 9 (3.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.69%) VoIP
6 4 (1.35%) LAN
6 4 (1.35%) Network Security
7 3 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (1.01%) VPN
7 3 (1.01%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.34%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.34%) Modbus
8 1 (0.34%) MQTT
8 1 (0.34%) Wireless
8 1 (0.34%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (35.47%) Oracle Database
2 105 (35.47%) Oracle Database 11g
3 20 (6.76%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.05%) MySQL
5 11 (3.72%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.35%) Power BI
10 3 (1.01%) Big Data
10 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.34%) GIS
12 1 (0.34%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (8.78%) Git
2 17 (5.74%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.38%) Appium
4 6 (2.03%) JIRA
5 5 (1.69%) webpack
6 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.34%) Moq
7 1 (0.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 53 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.14%) Finance
3 13 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.36%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.69%) Legal
7 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.35%) Law
7 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.35%) Retail
8 3 (1.01%) Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (63.51%) Developer
2 154 (52.03%) Senior
3 141 (47.64%) Senior Developer
4 105 (35.47%) Database Developer
4 105 (35.47%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 93 (31.42%) Senior Database Developer
6 51 (17.23%) Architect
6 51 (17.23%) Security Architect
7 31 (10.47%) Lead
7 31 (10.47%) Software Engineer
8 27 (9.12%) Lead Architect
8 27 (9.12%) Lead Security Architect
9 23 (7.77%) Software Developer
10 16 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
11 14 (4.73%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.73%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.05%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (4.05%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 11 (3.72%) Senior Backend Developer
14 10 (3.38%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.16%) .NET
1 36 (12.16%) React
2 33 (11.15%) AngularJS
3 26 (8.78%) ASP.NET
4 23 (7.77%) CSS
4 23 (7.77%) HTML
5 21 (7.09%) jQuery
5 21 (7.09%) Vue
6 16 (5.41%) REST
7 15 (5.07%) ASP.NET MVC
7 15 (5.07%) KnockoutJS
7 15 (5.07%) Node.js
8 13 (4.39%) GraphQL
9 12 (4.05%) Spring
10 11 (3.72%) JSON
11 10 (3.38%) Android SDK
11 10 (3.38%) RESTful
11 10 (3.38%) Web Services
12 9 (3.04%) OAuth
12 9 (3.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 33 (11.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 11 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.35%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.01%) IoT
10 3 (1.01%) PKI
10 3 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.68%) Life Science
11 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.39%) Android
2 12 (4.05%) Linux
3 8 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.36%) Windows
5 4 (1.35%) CentOS
5 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.01%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Unix
8 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (48.99%) Unit Testing
2 133 (44.93%) Actionable Insight
3 112 (37.84%) Migration
4 107 (36.15%) Artificial Intelligence
5 106 (35.81%) Data Migration
6 105 (35.47%) Performance Tuning
7 82 (27.70%) Agile
8 64 (21.62%) DevOps
9 63 (21.28%) OWASP
10 60 (20.27%) Clean Code
11 57 (19.26%) CI/CD
12 55 (18.58%) Application Security
13 50 (16.89%) Information Security
14 46 (15.54%) Security Architecture
15 43 (14.53%) Software Engineering
16 38 (12.84%) Design Patterns
17 34 (11.49%) SDLC
17 34 (11.49%) Test Automation
18 33 (11.15%) Identity Management
18 33 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.91%) SQL
2 105 (35.47%) PL/SQL
3 52 (17.57%) JavaScript
4 49 (16.55%) C#
5 30 (10.14%) Java
6 28 (9.46%) Python
7 18 (6.08%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.05%) C
8 12 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.38%) PHP
9 10 (3.38%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.70%) C++
11 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.35%) Swift
12 3 (1.01%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.34%) Bash
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Go
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (19.59%) CISSP
2 47 (15.88%) CISM
3 40 (13.51%) AWS Certification
4 38 (12.84%) Azure Certification
5 36 (12.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 36 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (11.49%) CCSK
6 34 (11.49%) CCSP
7 32 (10.81%) Security Cleared
8 28 (9.46%) Degree
9 24 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.39%) SC Cleared
11 12 (4.05%) CISA
12 8 (2.70%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.03%) GIAC
13 6 (2.03%) SANS
14 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
15 3 (1.01%) CEH
15 3 (1.01%) OSCP
16 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.86%) NIST
2 42 (14.19%) QA
3 15 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.03%) COBIT
4 6 (2.03%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.03%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (1.69%) NCSC
5 5 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.01%) GDPR
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) MISRA
8 1 (0.34%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (14.19%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) OpenSIPS
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) LXC
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.15%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.36%) Terraform
4 6 (2.03%) Ansible
4 6 (2.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.03%) Nessus
5 3 (1.01%) Suricata
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
6 2 (0.68%) logstash
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (39.53%) Oracle
2 32 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.39%) Google
4 5 (1.69%) Splunk
5 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.35%) VMware
6 3 (1.01%) Cisco
6 3 (1.01%) Juniper
6 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.34%) ESRI
7 1 (0.34%) Renesas
7 1 (0.34%) Xamarin