Secure Coding Jobs in the South East

Secure Code Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 348 365
Rank change year-on-year +71 +17 +53
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 36 36 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.20% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.24% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 3
10th Percentile - £59,375 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61,875 £94,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £93,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +13.97%

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 9,117 14,702 11,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.55% 81.88% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,754 10,093 7,451
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £30,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £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 £80,000 £79,298 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East.

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the South East

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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
Surrey +58 10 - -
Thames Valley +43 9 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Oxfordshire - 7 £55,000 -
Hampshire +77 5 £57,500 -36.11% 4
Middlesex - 5 - -
Kent +37 4 £95,000 +52.00% 5
East Sussex - 2 - -
Berkshire +25 1 - - 6
West Sussex +22 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (77.78%) AWS
2 25 (69.44%) Azure
3 19 (52.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (33.33%) Serverless
6 7 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (13.89%) Azure App Service
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (13.89%) PaaS
9 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.78%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (19.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (86.11%) Developer
2 23 (63.89%) Software Developer
3 13 (36.11%) Senior
4 12 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.78%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Head of Operations
8 1 (2.78%) Head of Security
8 1 (2.78%) Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Security Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) Node.js
2 24 (66.67%) .NET
3 18 (50.00%) Pandas
4 13 (36.11%) React
5 7 (19.44%) GraphQL
6 5 (13.89%) .NET Framework
6 5 (13.89%) CSS
6 5 (13.89%) HTML
7 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Android
1 18 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Kanban
2 23 (63.89%) Agile
3 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 19 (52.78%) Containerisation
4 19 (52.78%) Mathematics
4 19 (52.78%) Software Engineering
5 18 (50.00%) Android Development
5 18 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (50.00%) Design Patterns
5 18 (50.00%) Line Management
5 18 (50.00%) OO
5 18 (50.00%) OOP
5 18 (50.00%) OWASP
5 18 (50.00%) Statistics
6 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 7 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (19.44%) Functional Programming
8 7 (19.44%) Microservices
8 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) JavaScript
2 19 (52.78%) C++
2 19 (52.78%) Go
2 19 (52.78%) Python
3 18 (50.00%) Java
3 18 (50.00%) Rust
4 7 (19.44%) C#
4 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.89%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) Groovy
6 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
1 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (52.78%) Kubernetes
1 19 (52.78%) Terraform
2 18 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Rapid7