Application Security Job Trends in the East of England

Application Security (AppSec)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 172 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 -35 +56
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 3 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.072% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.39% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £71,500 £63,875 £67,125
25th Percentile £71,875 £71,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,500 £80,250 £74,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,101 3,079 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.17% 87.30% 86.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 1,190 1,578
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in the East of England

Application Security
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Application Security

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the East of England

Application Security
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Cambridgeshire +20 3 £75,000 +130.77% 3
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python