Application Security Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Application Security (AppSec)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.18% - 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £53,750 £44,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.79% -19.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 750 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 82.87% 80.39% 90.88%
Number of salaries quoted 175 321 208
10th Percentile £26,450 £24,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,540 £75,000 £87,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% +5.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Northamptonshire

Application Security
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Northampton - 1 £70,000 - 1
Application Security
East Midlands

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft