Application Security Jobs in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 283 292 337
Rank change year-on-year +9 +45 +134
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 111 228 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.86% 0.96% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.06% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 89 143 196
10th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £101,185
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in London.

Salary trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the London 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
Central London -4 8 £39,500 -60.50% 10
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (9.01%) Confluence
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.60%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (3.60%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (40.54%) AWS
2 38 (34.23%) Azure
3 21 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.91%) GCP
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.21%) GitHub
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.41%) PaaS
10 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.50%) Serverless
11 4 (3.60%) IaaS
11 4 (3.60%) SaaS
12 3 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.91%) Network Security
2 8 (7.21%) Firewall
3 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.31%) DB2
3 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.80%) Big Data
4 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.90%) HBase
5 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.90%) Power BI
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) IntelliJ
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.01%) JIRA
4 8 (7.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (6.31%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.50%) AppScan
6 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.60%) Postman
7 4 (3.60%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.70%) JMeter
8 3 (2.70%) Mocha
8 3 (2.70%) MSTest
8 3 (2.70%) NUnit
8 3 (2.70%) Selenium
8 3 (2.70%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.90%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.90%) Xcode
General
1 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.31%) Banking
5 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.80%) Games
6 2 (1.80%) Law
6 2 (1.80%) Legal
6 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Back Office
7 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) Senior
2 19 (17.12%) Java Engineer
2 19 (17.12%) Lead
3 18 (16.22%) Security Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) Analyst
5 14 (12.61%) Senior Java Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Architect
6 8 (7.21%) Security Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Tester
9 5 (4.50%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (4.50%) Release Manager
9 5 (4.50%) Security Architect
9 5 (4.50%) Security Specialist
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.92%) React
2 17 (15.32%) REST
3 12 (10.81%) .NET
4 8 (7.21%) .NET Framework
5 7 (6.31%) ASP.NET
6 5 (4.50%) RESTful
6 5 (4.50%) SLSA
7 4 (3.60%) Web Services
7 4 (3.60%) YAML
8 3 (2.70%) Jest
8 3 (2.70%) Playwright
8 3 (2.70%) Swagger
8 3 (2.70%) WebdriverIO
9 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.80%) JSON
10 1 (0.90%) J2EE
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.90%) OAuth
10 1 (0.90%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.90%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.50%) Blog
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.60%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (3.60%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Windows 7
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.90%) Android
3 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.44%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (34.23%) Security Testing
3 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (27.93%) CI/CD
5 25 (22.52%) Cloud Security
6 24 (21.62%) DevOps
6 24 (21.62%) DevSecOps
7 23 (20.72%) SDLC
8 22 (19.82%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 21 (18.92%) Open Source
9 21 (18.92%) Static Application Security Testing
10 19 (17.12%) Creative Thinking
11 18 (16.22%) Software Testing
12 17 (15.32%) Agile
13 16 (14.41%) Information Security
13 16 (14.41%) Penetration Testing
14 15 (13.51%) Secure Coding
14 15 (13.51%) TDD
15 14 (12.61%) Emotional Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.23%) Java
2 17 (15.32%) Python
3 13 (11.71%) SQL
4 11 (9.91%) C#
5 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.31%) PL/SQL
6 7 (6.31%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.31%) VB.NET
7 6 (5.41%) Go
8 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.70%) Ruby
10 1 (0.90%) Bash
10 1 (0.90%) C++
10 1 (0.90%) Groovy
10 1 (0.90%) Swift
10 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (28.83%) Degree
2 16 (14.41%) Master's Degree
3 14 (12.61%) PhD
4 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
5 9 (8.11%) CISSP
6 8 (7.21%) CISM
7 7 (6.31%) AWS Certification
7 7 (6.31%) CREST Certified
7 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.60%) ISTQB
9 4 (3.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (3.60%) OSCP
9 4 (3.60%) SSCP
10 3 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.70%) CHECK Team Leader
10 3 (2.70%) CHECK Team Member
10 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.70%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.03%) NIST
2 22 (19.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (10.81%) GDPR
4 9 (8.11%) NCSC
5 8 (7.21%) PCI DSS
6 7 (6.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (4.50%) SLA
8 4 (3.60%) SOC 2
9 3 (2.70%) QA
10 2 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.80%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.90%) COBIT
11 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.81%) Ansible
3 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
3 7 (6.31%) Puppet
4 5 (4.50%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.90%) Argo
6 1 (0.90%) Grafana
6 1 (0.90%) Nessus
6 1 (0.90%) SCCM
6 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.31%) SolarWinds
4 5 (4.50%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.50%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) VMware
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Oracle
6 3 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.80%) F5
7 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.80%) Siebel
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.90%) Juniper
8 1 (0.90%) Okta
8 1 (0.90%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.90%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.90%) Sybase
8 1 (0.90%) Varonis