Secure Coding Job Trends in the City of London

Secure Code Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 151 155
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +94
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 7 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.32% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £62,750 £81,875 £68,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £85,938 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £113,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £121,875 £92,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.22% +15.63% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Secure Coding 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 2,524 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.36% 95.64% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 1,607 2,397
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the City of London

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Secure Coding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the City of London

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Django
3 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
3 2 (28.57%) Flask
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Flutter
4 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) JWT
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) PySpark
4 1 (14.29%) Quarkus
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) API Design
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible