Static Application Security Testing Jobs in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 786 855
Rank change year-on-year +146 +69 +147
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 51 57 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.066% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.078% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 38 40 37
10th Percentile £64,475 £54,375 £80,000
25th Percentile £74,870 £57,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £60,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -31.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £105,000 £77,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £107,000 £91,991 £122,500
UK median annual salary £78,810 £60,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +31.35% -31.43% +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Static Application Security Testing 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +122 27 £96,250 +9.86% 42
Midlands +59 7 £75,000 +25.00% 6
West Midlands +52 7 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +45 6 £78,810 +31.35% 17
South West +106 5 £78,810 +21.25% 8
South East +91 3 £57,500 -11.54% 13
North West -3 3 £78,810 +31.35% 8
Yorkshire - 3 £78,810 - 9
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 8 (15.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) AWS
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
3 16 (31.37%) GCP
4 10 (19.61%) Apigee
4 10 (19.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (13.73%) IaaS
6 7 (13.73%) PaaS
6 7 (13.73%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.96%) Datadog
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 22 (43.14%) SonarQube
3 11 (21.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (19.61%) Git
4 10 (19.61%) JUnit
4 10 (19.61%) Maven
5 8 (15.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (15.69%) JIRA
6 5 (9.80%) AppScan
7 4 (7.84%) GitLab
8 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.96%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.96%) Postman
9 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (52.94%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Publishing
6 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Senior
2 12 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead
6 5 (9.80%) Security Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Environment And Release Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Environment Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Release Manager
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) JIRA Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Security Analyst
9 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Hibernate
1 10 (19.61%) Spring Boot
2 9 (17.65%) RESTful
2 9 (17.65%) Spring
3 7 (13.73%) ARM Templates
3 7 (13.73%) Azure Blueprints
4 6 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (7.84%) REST
6 3 (5.88%) OAuth
6 3 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.92%) OpenID
8 1 (1.96%) JWT
8 1 (1.96%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.73%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 10 (19.61%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
3 28 (54.90%) Application Security
3 28 (54.90%) DevOps
4 27 (52.94%) Software Engineering
5 25 (49.02%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (39.22%) DevSecOps
7 19 (37.25%) Test Automation
8 13 (25.49%) Microservices
9 12 (23.53%) Cloud Security
9 12 (23.53%) SDLC
10 11 (21.57%) Design Patterns
10 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (21.57%) Release Management
10 11 (21.57%) Secure Coding
11 10 (19.61%) Event-Driven
11 10 (19.61%) Security Testing
11 10 (19.61%) TDD
11 10 (19.61%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) Java
2 18 (35.29%) Python
3 15 (29.41%) Go
4 13 (25.49%) SQL
5 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) C++
6 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.92%) Rust
7 1 (1.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.92%) CISSP
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) CASP
4 1 (1.96%) CISM
4 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.96%) CSSLP
4 1 (1.96%) GIAC
4 1 (1.96%) GWAPT
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) NCSC
2 7 (13.73%) GDPR
3 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
4 5 (9.80%) NIST
4 5 (9.80%) SLA
5 4 (7.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (43.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (35.29%) Ansible
2 18 (35.29%) Terraform
3 10 (19.61%) Istio
4 7 (13.73%) Progress Chef
4 7 (13.73%) Puppet
5 5 (9.80%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.96%) Grafana
6 1 (1.96%) Nessus
6 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Atlassian
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Splunk
3 2 (3.92%) Alibaba
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.96%) Darktrace
4 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.96%) Graphcore
4 1 (1.96%) McAfee