Application Security Job Trends in Swansea

Application Security (AppSec)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 35 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.77% 77.78% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 135 26 136
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £47,316
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -20.25% +16.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,800 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +10.42%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Application Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Application Security job vacancy trend in Swansea

Application Security
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Application Security

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk