Application Security Jobs in the North of England

Application Security (AppSec)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 327 349
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -8
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 6 65 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.051% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.44% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 61 26
10th Percentile £49,104 £37,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £49,729 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +42.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £71,875
90th Percentile £81,000 £88,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the North of England.

Salary trend for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the North of England

Application Security
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -33 4 £51,585 -14.88% 13
Yorkshire +45 2 £67,500 -15.46% 5
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware