Application Security Job Trends in Dorset

Application Security (AppSec)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.26% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +10.71% -8.20% -19.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 334 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 72.68% 84.13% 84.27%
Number of salaries quoted 332 185 444
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,936 £30,553
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £65,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Application Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Application Security job vacancy trend in Dorset

Application Security
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 22 August 2026. 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
Bournemouth - 2 £57,500 - 2
Application Security
South West

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (100.00%) PMI
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef