Application Security Jobs in Birmingham

Application Security (AppSec)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 103 132 116
Rank change year-on-year +29 -16 +56
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.071% 0.51% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.62% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 13
10th Percentile - £54,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £57,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £74,378
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -9.25% +41.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,919 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £94,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -13.53% +26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,331 2,259 1,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.00% 81.94% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 740 1,829 1,363
10th Percentile £33,625 £32,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £43,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Birmingham

Application Security
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Application Security in Birmingham

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle