Static Application Security Testing Job Trends in Taunton

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 1.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44,375 - -
25th Percentile £49,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 - -
75th Percentile £69,063 - -
90th Percentile £74,125 - -
Somerset median annual salary £58,750 - £63,750

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Static Application Security Testing 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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 15 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 78.64% 83.33% 79.25%
Number of salaries quoted 70 9 29
10th Percentile £28,000 - £12,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £15,423 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £22,620 £36,214
Median % change year-on-year +82.36% -37.54% -17.49%
75th Percentile £47,188 £41,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £56,000
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Taunton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in Taunton over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in Taunton

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ATL
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) MFC
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft