Application Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 418 526
Rank change year-on-year +25 +108 -116
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 202 268 350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.68% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 153 197 254
10th Percentile £46,550 £27,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £84,919 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £105,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Application Security 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Application Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Application Security over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Application Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (0.99%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.09%) Azure
2 49 (24.26%) AWS
3 20 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.42%) SaaS
5 12 (5.94%) Azure AKS
6 10 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.46%) IaaS
7 9 (4.46%) PaaS
8 7 (3.47%) Serverless
9 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.97%) Azure Service Fabric
10 3 (1.49%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 77 (38.12%) WAN
2 53 (26.24%) Firewall
3 42 (20.79%) LAN
4 41 (20.30%) VPN
5 38 (18.81%) Internet
6 33 (16.34%) SD-WAN
7 14 (6.93%) Wireless
8 8 (3.96%) Network Security
9 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.98%) BGP
10 4 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (1.98%) MPLS
10 4 (1.98%) OSPF
10 4 (1.98%) tcpdump
10 4 (1.98%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.98%) VXLAN
10 4 (1.98%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.49%) Looker
2 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Burp Suite
1 6 (2.97%) Metasploit
2 4 (1.98%) Git
2 4 (1.98%) Selenium
3 3 (1.49%) Moq
3 3 (1.49%) Postman
3 3 (1.49%) SoapUI
3 3 (1.49%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) Grunt
4 1 (0.50%) gulp
General
1 61 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.30%) Retail
3 30 (14.85%) Finance
4 14 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.94%) Health Technology
6 11 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.95%) Law
7 10 (4.95%) Tech for Good
8 9 (4.46%) Legal
9 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.97%) Marketing
10 6 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Banking
11 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Electronics
13 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (35.64%) Architect
2 63 (31.19%) Senior
3 44 (21.78%) Security Architect
4 32 (15.84%) Lead
5 27 (13.37%) Lead Architect
5 27 (13.37%) Lead Security Architect
6 22 (10.89%) Infrastructure Architect
7 21 (10.40%) Security Engineer
8 16 (7.92%) Analyst
8 16 (7.92%) Security Analyst
9 14 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.94%) Developer
11 11 (5.45%) Penetration Tester
11 11 (5.45%) Tester
12 9 (4.46%) Analytics Manager
12 9 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Fraud Manager
13 8 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 7 (3.47%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.43%) REST
2 7 (3.47%) .NET
2 7 (3.47%) HTML
3 6 (2.97%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.97%) Entity Framework
3 6 (2.97%) SOAP
3 6 (2.97%) Vue
3 6 (2.97%) Web Services
4 5 (2.48%) CSS
5 4 (1.98%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.98%) HTML5
5 4 (1.98%) Middleware
6 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (1.49%) Swagger
7 2 (0.99%) CSS3
7 2 (0.99%) OAuth
7 2 (0.99%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.99%) TAPI
7 2 (0.99%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.77%) Management Information System
2 41 (20.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.95%) PKI
3 10 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.49%) IoT
8 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) W3C
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.99%) Robotics
10 1 (0.50%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (26.24%) Windows
2 37 (18.32%) Linux
3 36 (17.82%) Ubuntu
3 36 (17.82%) VMS
4 15 (7.43%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) Android
5 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.64%) Information Security
2 66 (32.67%) OWASP
3 63 (31.19%) DevSecOps
4 59 (29.21%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (26.24%) Security Architecture
6 47 (23.27%) Agile
7 43 (21.29%) CI/CD
8 41 (20.30%) Identity Management
9 39 (19.31%) Collaborative Culture
9 39 (19.31%) Secure Coding
10 38 (18.81%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (13.37%) Vulnerability Management
13 25 (12.38%) ITIL
14 23 (11.39%) DevOps
15 22 (10.89%) Penetration Testing
16 21 (10.40%) Security Testing
16 21 (10.40%) SIEM
17 20 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
18 19 (9.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.40%) SQL
2 12 (5.94%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.95%) C#
3 10 (4.95%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (4.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.96%) Python
5 6 (2.97%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.98%) Java
7 3 (1.49%) PHP
7 3 (1.49%) R
8 2 (0.99%) Dart
8 2 (0.99%) Go
8 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.99%) Lua
8 2 (0.99%) Objective-C
8 2 (0.99%) Ruby
8 2 (0.99%) Rust
8 2 (0.99%) Swift
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 51 (25.25%) CISSP
2 47 (23.27%) Security Cleared
3 42 (20.79%) CISM
4 40 (19.80%) Cisco Certification
5 39 (19.31%) DV Cleared
6 38 (18.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 37 (18.32%) CCSP
7 37 (18.32%) Degree
8 36 (17.82%) Azure Certification
9 34 (16.83%) AWS Certification
10 33 (16.34%) CCSK
11 13 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (5.94%) CHECK Team Member
13 11 (5.45%) CREST Certified
13 11 (5.45%) Cyber Scheme
14 10 (4.95%) SC Cleared
15 9 (4.46%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (3.96%) GIAC
16 8 (3.96%) SANS
17 7 (3.47%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (29.70%) NIST
2 21 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.95%) GRC
3 10 (4.95%) SOC 2
4 8 (3.96%) COBIT
5 6 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.97%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.97%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.48%) GDPR
6 5 (2.48%) SLA
7 4 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.49%) NCSC
8 3 (1.49%) QA
8 3 (1.49%) WCAG
9 2 (0.99%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (23.76%) Active Directory
2 42 (20.79%) Docker
3 10 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (27.72%) Terraform
2 54 (26.73%) Kubernetes
3 43 (21.29%) Single Sign-On
4 37 (18.32%) Ansible
5 8 (3.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (2.97%) Nmap
7 3 (1.49%) QRadar
7 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.99%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.99%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.95%) VMware
3 4 (1.98%) F5
3 4 (1.98%) Splunk
4 3 (1.49%) IBM
4 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.99%) Aruba
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco
5 2 (0.99%) Qualys
5 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.50%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.50%) Siemens
6 1 (0.50%) Symantec