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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 358 400
Rank change year-on-year +119 +42 +1
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 47 28 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 0.17% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.20% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 2
10th Percentile - £57,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £58,750 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £61,375 - £79,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,996 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.01% -5.34% -

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 7,794 14,168 14,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.92% 84.76% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,165 9,954 8,196
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 3 May 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 3 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
Thames Valley +72 13 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Hampshire +82 11 £56,250 -6.25%
Oxfordshire - 11 £55,000 - 3
Surrey - 10 - -
Middlesex - 5 - -
Kent +42 3 - - 5
West Sussex +30 3 - - 2
East Sussex - 2 - -
Berkshire +28 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 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (78.72%) AWS
2 24 (51.06%) Azure
3 22 (46.81%) Serverless
4 18 (38.30%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (38.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (10.64%) Azure App Service
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Functions
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (10.64%) PaaS
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (36.17%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.26%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Git
1 2 (4.26%) GitLab
1 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 18 (38.30%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (38.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
Job Titles
1 43 (91.49%) Developer
2 29 (61.70%) Software Developer
3 24 (51.06%) Senior
4 23 (48.94%) Senior Developer
5 10 (21.28%) Senior Software Developer
6 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 1 (2.13%) Angular Developer
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Developer
9 1 (2.13%) C++ Software Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Head of Cybersecurity
9 1 (2.13%) Head of Operations
9 1 (2.13%) Operations Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Senior Security Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (76.60%) Node.js
2 24 (51.06%) .NET
3 22 (46.81%) React
4 18 (38.30%) Pandas
5 17 (36.17%) GraphQL
6 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
6 5 (10.64%) CSS
6 5 (10.64%) HTML
7 2 (4.26%) Kafka
7 2 (4.26%) REST
8 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (38.30%) Cyberattack
2 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Android
1 18 (38.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) Kanban
2 25 (53.19%) Agile
3 23 (48.94%) CI/CD
4 22 (46.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (46.81%) Test Automation
5 21 (44.68%) Containerisation
6 19 (40.43%) Mathematics
6 19 (40.43%) Microservices
6 19 (40.43%) Software Engineering
7 18 (38.30%) Android Development
7 18 (38.30%) Collaborative Working
7 18 (38.30%) Design Patterns
7 18 (38.30%) Line Management
7 18 (38.30%) OO
7 18 (38.30%) OOP
7 18 (38.30%) OWASP
7 18 (38.30%) Statistics
8 17 (36.17%) Clean Code
8 17 (36.17%) Event-Driven
8 17 (36.17%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) JavaScript
2 20 (42.55%) Go
3 19 (40.43%) C++
4 18 (38.30%) Java
4 18 (38.30%) Python
4 18 (38.30%) Rust
5 17 (36.17%) TypeScript
6 7 (14.89%) C#
7 5 (10.64%) Bicep
8 3 (6.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (44.68%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (44.68%) Kubernetes
2 18 (38.30%) Ansible
2 18 (38.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft