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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 765 758
Rank change year-on-year +143 -7 -51
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 297 218 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.22% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 133 101 255
10th Percentile £52,250 £45,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,475 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +17.89%
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +15.00%

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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
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 6 May 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 6 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
England +132 233 £70,996 -5.34% 47
UK excluding London +139 222 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Work from Home +219 220 £68,750 -14.60% 22
North of England +120 77 £79,842 +62.94% 6
North West +65 54 £61,206 -18.39% 5
South West 0 54 £67,500 +42.11% 6
London +47 47 £79,842 -6.07% 26
South East +37 28 £70,000 -12.50% 5
Scotland - 21 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +110 19 £79,842 +85.68% 1
Midlands +20 19 £79,842 +38.86% 3
Northern Ireland +30 12 - - 1
West Midlands +30 10 £79,842 +52.08% 2
Wales +20 9 - -
East Midlands -12 9 - - 1
North East - 6 £79,842 -
East of England - 2 £63,750 - 2

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 (1.68%) 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 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 199 (67.00%) AWS
2 111 (37.37%) Azure
3 21 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (5.72%) Serverless
5 16 (5.39%) GitHub
6 11 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (3.70%) SaaS
7 10 (3.37%) Google Play
8 9 (3.03%) GCP
9 8 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.69%) PaaS
10 7 (2.36%) IaaS
11 6 (2.02%) Azure Service Fabric
11 6 (2.02%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.02%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.68%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.68%) npm
13 4 (1.35%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.46%) WAN
2 33 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 14 (4.71%) Firewall
4 10 (3.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.68%) Network Security
6 4 (1.35%) Internet
6 4 (1.35%) LAN
6 4 (1.35%) VoIP
6 4 (1.35%) 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 (37.37%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (35.35%) Oracle Database
2 105 (35.35%) Oracle Database 11g
3 19 (6.40%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.04%) MySQL
5 11 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Power BI
9 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.34%) GIS
11 1 (0.34%) OLTP
11 1 (0.34%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (8.75%) Git
2 17 (5.72%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.37%) Appium
4 6 (2.02%) JIRA
5 5 (1.68%) webpack
6 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.67%) 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 52 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.44%) Finance
3 13 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.36%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.02%) Legal
7 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.68%) Law
8 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Banking
9 3 (1.01%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.01%) Retail
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 187 (62.96%) Developer
2 154 (51.85%) Senior
3 141 (47.47%) Senior Developer
4 105 (35.35%) Database Developer
4 105 (35.35%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 93 (31.31%) Senior Database Developer
6 52 (17.51%) Architect
6 52 (17.51%) Security Architect
7 32 (10.77%) Lead
7 32 (10.77%) Software Engineer
8 27 (9.09%) Lead Architect
8 27 (9.09%) Lead Security Architect
9 22 (7.41%) Software Developer
10 16 (5.39%) Senior Software Developer
11 14 (4.71%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.71%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.04%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (4.04%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 11 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
14 10 (3.37%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.12%) .NET
2 35 (11.78%) React
3 33 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 25 (8.42%) ASP.NET
5 24 (8.08%) CSS
6 23 (7.74%) HTML
7 21 (7.07%) jQuery
7 21 (7.07%) Vue
8 16 (5.39%) REST
9 15 (5.05%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (5.05%) KnockoutJS
9 15 (5.05%) Node.js
10 13 (4.38%) GraphQL
11 12 (4.04%) Spring
12 11 (3.70%) JSON
12 11 (3.70%) Web Services
13 10 (3.37%) Android SDK
14 9 (3.03%) RESTful
14 9 (3.03%) SOAP
15 8 (2.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.80%) Management Information System
2 33 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 11 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.35%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.01%) IoT
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.67%) Life Science
12 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.38%) Android
2 11 (3.70%) Linux
3 8 (2.69%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.36%) Windows
5 4 (1.35%) CentOS
5 4 (1.35%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (48.82%) Unit Testing
2 133 (44.78%) Actionable Insight
3 112 (37.71%) Migration
4 107 (36.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 106 (35.69%) Data Migration
6 105 (35.35%) Performance Tuning
7 81 (27.27%) Agile
8 64 (21.55%) OWASP
9 62 (20.88%) DevOps
10 60 (20.20%) Clean Code
11 58 (19.53%) CI/CD
12 56 (18.86%) Application Security
13 50 (16.84%) Information Security
14 47 (15.82%) Security Architecture
15 44 (14.81%) Software Engineering
16 38 (12.79%) Design Patterns
17 34 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (11.45%) SDLC
18 33 (11.11%) Identity Management
18 33 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.76%) SQL
2 105 (35.35%) PL/SQL
3 50 (16.84%) JavaScript
4 49 (16.50%) C#
5 31 (10.44%) Java
6 28 (9.43%) Python
7 19 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.38%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.04%) C
10 9 (3.03%) PHP
10 9 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.36%) C++
12 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.35%) Swift
14 3 (1.01%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.34%) Bash
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
15 1 (0.34%) Go
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (19.87%) CISSP
2 47 (15.82%) CISM
3 41 (13.80%) AWS Certification
4 39 (13.13%) Azure Certification
5 36 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 36 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (11.45%) CCSK
6 34 (11.45%) CCSP
7 32 (10.77%) Security Cleared
8 29 (9.76%) Degree
9 24 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.38%) SC Cleared
11 12 (4.04%) CISA
12 8 (2.69%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.02%) GIAC
13 6 (2.02%) SANS
14 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
15 3 (1.01%) CEH
15 3 (1.01%) OSCP
16 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.15%) NIST
2 41 (13.80%) QA
3 16 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.02%) COBIT
4 6 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.02%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.02%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (1.68%) NCSC
6 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.01%) GDPR
8 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) MISRA
9 1 (0.34%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (14.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) LXC
3 1 (0.34%) OpenSIPS
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.36%) Terraform
4 6 (2.02%) Ansible
4 6 (2.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.02%) Nessus
5 4 (1.35%) Suricata
6 2 (0.67%) Grafana
6 2 (0.67%) Kibana
6 2 (0.67%) logstash
6 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (39.39%) Oracle
2 33 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.38%) Google
4 6 (2.02%) Splunk
5 4 (1.35%) Cisco
5 4 (1.35%) Juniper
5 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.35%) VMware
6 1 (0.34%) ESRI
6 1 (0.34%) Renesas
6 1 (0.34%) Xamarin