Application Security Jobs in the East Midlands

Application Security (AppSec)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 181 143
Rank change year-on-year +31 -38 -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Application Security 5 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.21% 0.046% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.061% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -19.09% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £44,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 3,291 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.93% 76.34% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,808 1,056
10th Percentile £26,208 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -15.49% +12.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -2.65% -8.88% +3.35%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the East Midlands

Application Security
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 5 £37,500 - 1
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) IaaS
1 4 (80.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CRM
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike