Secure Coding Job Trends in the South East

Secure Code Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 285 275
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +137
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 6 29 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.068% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4 25 4
10th Percentile £58,625 £66,250 £83,250
25th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £72,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -21.62% +42.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £71,250 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.72% +11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Secure Coding 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 7,578 9,133 7,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 86.28% 81.45% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,544 4,742 5,084
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the South East

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Secure Coding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Kent - 3 £95,000 -
Hampshire +24 1 £82,500 -2.94% 10
Buckinghamshire +11 1 £50,000 -43.18% 6
Thames Valley +7 1 £50,000 -43.18% 34
West Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 9
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Snyk
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Development
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Groovy
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) PingFederate
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 2 (33.33%) Qualys
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Rapid7