Application Security Jobs in the South East

Application Security (AppSec)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 341 324
Rank change year-on-year +72 -17 +74
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 38 56 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 49
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 -
25th Percentile £33,438 £57,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +29.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75,875 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £76,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.25% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the South East

Application Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Application Security in the South East

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the South East

Application Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Middlesex - 17 - -
Hampshire +72 15 £62,500 +0.37% 33
Thames Valley +36 4 £70,000 -3.45% 75
Buckinghamshire - 3 £70,000 - 19
Kent +37 2 £37,500 -42.31% 19
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 11
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.89%) Appian
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
2 2 (5.26%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (55.26%) Azure
2 19 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (39.47%) PaaS
4 8 (21.05%) AWS
5 5 (13.16%) SaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) MinIO
6 3 (7.89%) npm
6 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.63%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
1 4 (10.53%) HTTPS
1 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Airbyte
1 1 (2.63%) MySQL
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
1 3 (7.89%) Git
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
1 3 (7.89%) Robot Framework
1 3 (7.89%) Selenium
1 3 (7.89%) Snyk
2 2 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (5.26%) Vite
3 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.63%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.63%) Mocha
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Advertising
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Back Office
3 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.26%) Law
3 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Publishing
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 15 (39.47%) Lead
3 8 (21.05%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Applications Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Architecture Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Security Manager
8 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Operational Security Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) YAML
2 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 3 (7.89%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (7.89%) CSS
2 3 (7.89%) HTML
2 3 (7.89%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.26%) Sass
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.63%) Blazor
4 1 (2.63%) Jest
4 1 (2.63%) Laravel
4 1 (2.63%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.63%) React
4 1 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) Svelte
4 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.63%) Vue
4 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Security Posture
2 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.26%) YARA
5 1 (2.63%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Android
1 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 24 (63.16%) Test Automation
3 23 (60.53%) Computer Science
4 20 (52.63%) Security Testing
5 19 (50.00%) DevOps
5 19 (50.00%) DevSecOps
5 19 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 18 (47.37%) Agile
6 18 (47.37%) SDLC
7 16 (42.11%) OWASP
8 15 (39.47%) Backlog Management
8 15 (39.47%) Coaching
8 15 (39.47%) Creative Thinking
8 15 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (39.47%) Product Management
8 15 (39.47%) Product Strategy
8 15 (39.47%) Threat Modelling
8 15 (39.47%) Vulnerability Management
8 15 (39.47%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 6 (15.79%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.42%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 4 (10.53%) C
4 4 (10.53%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) C++
4 4 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) Kotlin
4 4 (10.53%) Objective-C
4 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Degree
2 19 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 17 (44.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.89%) CISM
4 3 (7.89%) CISSP
4 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) CISA
5 2 (5.26%) CRISC
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) CEH
6 1 (2.63%) GIAC
6 1 (2.63%) OSCP
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (47.37%) NIST
2 15 (39.47%) NCSC
3 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
3 3 (7.89%) QA
4 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.26%) COBIT
4 2 (5.26%) GRC
4 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Nessus
3 1 (2.63%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (7.89%) Black Duck
2 3 (7.89%) UiPath
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.63%) Coverity
4 1 (2.63%) Qualys