Dynamic Application Security Testing Job Trends in Somerset

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 7 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.68% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% - 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £41,250 - £61,375
25th Percentile £54,375 - £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £66,563
90th Percentile £77,500 - £67,125
South West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -31.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Dynamic 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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 772 252 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 74.52% 82.89% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 446 168 425
10th Percentile £28,306 £26,500 £27,700
25th Percentile £32,938 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +1.58% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £66,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Somerset

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Somerset over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Somerset

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Taunton - 7 £70,000 - 2
Dynamic Application Security Testing
South West

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) MSI
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
General
1 7 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) .NET Core
1 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
1 5 (71.43%) ATL
1 5 (71.43%) COM
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) CSS3
1 5 (71.43%) GeoJSON
1 5 (71.43%) HTML
1 5 (71.43%) HTML5
1 5 (71.43%) MFC
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
1 5 (71.43%) WPF
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 7 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 5 (71.43%) API Design
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Dependency Management
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) SOLID
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bicep
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (100.00%) WCAG
2 5 (71.43%) NCSC
3 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft