Static Application Security Testing Job Trends in London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Static Application Security Testing 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 358 399 430
Rank change year-on-year +41 +31 +194
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 16 29 13
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.19% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £65,500 - £72,166
25th Percentile £68,750 £98,750 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £102,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +20.59% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £116,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £122,500 £113,500
England median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.82% -0.46%

All Process & 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 12,365 14,682 16,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.68% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 8,070 13,469
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in London

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Static Application Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 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
Central London +38 1 £87,500 -4.11% 2
West London - 1 £107,500 -
Static Application Security Testing
England

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GitHub
2 7 (43.75%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) GCP
5 4 (25.00%) SaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
7 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (12.50%) AMQP
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (12.50%) Snyk
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Retail
3 4 (25.00%) Back Office
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Blog
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) OWASP
5 7 (43.75%) Cloud Security
6 6 (37.50%) Application Security
6 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 6 (37.50%) SDLC
7 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
7 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (31.25%) Secure Coding
7 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (25.00%) RBAC
8 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
8 4 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Go
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (31.25%) SOC 2
2 4 (25.00%) GRC
2 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (25.00%) Cilium
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 2 (12.50%) Pega
2 2 (12.50%) Qualys
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk