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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 297 300
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 +106
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 25 39 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.37% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 31 5
10th Percentile £54,250 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £60,625 £68,750 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -19.44% +38.46%
75th Percentile £85,625 £92,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +23.08%

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 7,898 10,435 8,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.06% 80.89% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,217 5,875 5,811
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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

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 17 September 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 17 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
Surrey +27 10 - - 1
Kent - 6 £95,000 -
Thames Valley -6 4 £50,000 -36.71% 7
Buckinghamshire -9 2 £50,000 -43.18% 1
East Sussex - 2 - -
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
West Sussex +4 1 - -
Berkshire -14 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) Azure
2 21 (84.00%) AWS
3 19 (76.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (72.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.00%) Azure App Service
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Snyk
General
1 18 (72.00%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (72.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Developer
2 18 (72.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) GCP Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL Developer
5 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) .NET
2 19 (76.00%) Node.js
3 18 (72.00%) Pandas
4 3 (12.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) HTML
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) OpenID
6 1 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (4.00%) SAML
6 1 (4.00%) Spring
6 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Android
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (80.00%) Agile
2 20 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 20 (80.00%) OWASP
3 19 (76.00%) OO
3 19 (76.00%) OOP
4 18 (72.00%) Android Development
4 18 (72.00%) Collaborative Working
4 18 (72.00%) Design Patterns
4 18 (72.00%) Kanban
4 18 (72.00%) Line Management
4 18 (72.00%) Mathematics
4 18 (72.00%) Software Engineering
4 18 (72.00%) Statistics
5 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 19 (76.00%) Go
2 19 (76.00%) Java
3 18 (72.00%) C++
3 18 (72.00%) Rust
4 2 (8.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (72.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (76.00%) Terraform
3 18 (72.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) PingFederate
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (8.00%) Qualys
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Rapid7