Application Security Jobs in Central London

Application Security (AppSec)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 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 159 226 256
Rank change year-on-year +67 +30 -27
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 40 18 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.36% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23 14 46
10th Percentile £76,250 £54,350 £62,500
25th Percentile £83,750 £64,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £105,625 £95,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £106,375 £127,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,506 4,979 7,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.43% 94.84% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,731 4,119 6,401
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Central London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Security in Central London

Application Security
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Central London region 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
City of London +81 40 £100,000 +11.11% 3
Application Security
London

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.50%) IaaS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 5 (12.50%) Metasploit
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Senior
2 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 18 (45.00%) Security Analyst
2 18 (45.00%) Senior Analyst
2 18 (45.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 16 (40.00%) Architect
4 13 (32.50%) CISSP Analyst
4 13 (32.50%) IT Analyst
4 13 (32.50%) IT Security Analyst
4 13 (32.50%) Security Architect
4 13 (32.50%) Senior IT Security Analyst
5 10 (25.00%) IT Architect
5 10 (25.00%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) OAuth
2 4 (10.00%) RESTful
3 3 (7.50%) JSON
3 3 (7.50%) SAML
3 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 3 (7.50%) XML
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.50%) CSS
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.50%) OpenID
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 13 (32.50%) Change Management
3 13 (32.50%) Cloud Security
3 13 (32.50%) Incident Management
3 13 (32.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 13 (32.50%) Security Architecture
3 13 (32.50%) Security Management
3 13 (32.50%) SIEM
3 13 (32.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 13 (32.50%) Threat Detection
4 10 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 10 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 7 (17.50%) Information Security
5 7 (17.50%) OWASP
6 5 (12.50%) Benchmarking
6 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 5 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) C++
1 2 (5.00%) Java
1 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) C#
2 1 (2.50%) Go
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (65.00%) CISSP
2 11 (27.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 11 (27.50%) CCSP
2 11 (27.50%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (22.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) CEH
4 2 (5.00%) CISM
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CCSK
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) OSCP
5 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Nmap
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Cacti
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Nagios
3 1 (2.50%) Puppet
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Citrix
2 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.50%) VMware