Static Application Security Testing Jobs in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 873 990
Rank change year-on-year +84 +117 -165
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 58 59 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.065% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.068% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 42 37 118
10th Percentile £55,125 £80,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,188 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £122,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -31.43% +9.38% +8.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Static Application Security Testing 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Static Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in England.

Salary trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Static Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +58 13 £60,000 -25.00% 1
North West +16 13 £60,000 -36.84% 1
West Midlands +33 12 £60,000 -27.27%
South East +14 12 £65,000 -23.53% 1
Midlands +5 12 £60,000 -27.27%
London +101 11 £87,610 -1.28% 10
South West - 8 £65,000 - 4
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (65.52%) Azure
2 26 (44.83%) AWS
3 20 (34.48%) SaaS
4 12 (20.69%) GitHub
5 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (15.52%) Serverless
8 8 (13.79%) IaaS
8 8 (13.79%) PaaS
9 7 (12.07%) GCP
10 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.45%) npm
12 2 (3.45%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 2 (3.45%) LAN
3 2 (3.45%) WAN
3 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) SonarQube
2 8 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.45%) Snyk
5 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Retail
5 6 (10.34%) Finance
6 5 (8.62%) Banking
6 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Architect
1 10 (17.24%) Security Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Vulnerability Manager
3 7 (12.07%) IT Manager
3 7 (12.07%) Security Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Security Specialist
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Senior
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Information Security Specialist
6 3 (5.17%) Information Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
8 1 (1.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) .NET
2 15 (25.86%) React
3 8 (13.79%) ARM Templates
3 8 (13.79%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (8.62%) Node.js
5 4 (6.90%) Kafka
5 4 (6.90%) OAuth
5 4 (6.90%) OpenID
6 3 (5.17%) RESTful
7 2 (3.45%) Django
7 2 (3.45%) Express.js
7 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.45%) SAML
8 1 (1.72%) HTML
8 1 (1.72%) Jest
8 1 (1.72%) Loki
8 1 (1.72%) Next.js
8 1 (1.72%) Playwright
8 1 (1.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Security Posture
2 12 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 12 (20.69%) Product Ownership
3 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) CentOS
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
1 4 (6.90%) Solaris
1 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
1 4 (6.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 22 (37.93%) Agile
3 21 (36.21%) OWASP
4 19 (32.76%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (32.76%) DevSecOps
4 19 (32.76%) Penetration Testing
5 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
6 17 (29.31%) DevOps
6 17 (29.31%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
8 14 (24.14%) SDLC
9 11 (18.97%) Application Security
9 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (18.97%) Patch Management
9 11 (18.97%) SIEM
10 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 10 (17.24%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
10 10 (17.24%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) C#
2 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.17%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) C++
5 1 (1.72%) Go
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.72%) Python
5 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (13.79%) CISSP
1 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) OSCP
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.90%) CEH
4 4 (6.90%) CISM
4 4 (6.90%) GSEC
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (13.79%) NCSC
1 8 (13.79%) NIST
2 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.86%) Terraform
3 10 (17.24%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Qualys