Application Security Jobs in Berkshire

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 131 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 +8
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 2 34 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.12% 1.11% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 1.29% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £59,500 £57,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.09% -28.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £114,000 £66,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £71,250 £51,250
% change year-on-year -15.79% +39.02% -26.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,492 2,635 2,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.73% 86.05% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 533 1,803 1,622
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £31,525
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £75,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £94,650
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in Berkshire

Application Security
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Reading +28 2 £72,500 - 5
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware