Static Application Security Testing Jobs in London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 494 597
Rank change year-on-year +121 +103 +198
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 27 11 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.047% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.051% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 28
10th Percentile £66,750 £82,084 -
25th Percentile £74,870 £83,230 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,610 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -1.28% +4.41%
75th Percentile £106,250 £96,250 £108,770
90th Percentile £111,500 £107,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £78,810 £60,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +31.35% -31.43% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,202 21,521 33,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.09% 91.31% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,414 16,018 24,056
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in London

Static Application Security Testing
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +32 2 £91,250 -10.98% 1
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static Application Security Testing
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 8 (29.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Apigee
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 8 (29.63%) JIRA
3 7 (25.93%) SonarQube
4 5 (18.52%) AppScan
5 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (7.41%) Git
6 2 (7.41%) GitLab
6 2 (7.41%) JUnit
6 2 (7.41%) Maven
7 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
7 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 1 (3.70%) Metasploit
7 1 (3.70%) Postman
7 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Banking
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 7 (25.93%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Environment And Release Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Environment Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Release Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Security Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
1 2 (7.41%) Spring
1 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) JWT
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (14.81%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 21 (77.78%) Application Security
3 20 (74.07%) CI/CD
4 15 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (44.44%) DevOps
6 11 (40.74%) DevSecOps
7 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 9 (33.33%) SDLC
8 8 (29.63%) Secure Coding
8 8 (29.63%) Security Testing
9 7 (25.93%) Cloud Security
9 7 (25.93%) RAD
9 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
10 6 (22.22%) OWASP
10 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 5 (18.52%) Line Management
11 5 (18.52%) Threat Modelling
12 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
12 4 (14.81%) Release Management
12 4 (14.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Go
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) C++
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
4 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CASP
1 1 (3.70%) CISM
1 1 (3.70%) CISSP
1 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
1 5 (18.52%) SLA
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Ansible
2 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Progress Chef
2 7 (25.93%) Puppet
3 5 (18.52%) HP Fortify
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) Istio
6 1 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (3.70%) Nessus
6 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Atlassian
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Alibaba
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.70%) Darktrace
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) McAfee