Application Security Jobs in the Thames Valley

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 206 239
Rank change year-on-year +30 +33 +8
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 7 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.52% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £57,500 £46,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +26.09% -28.13%
75th Percentile £72,500 £100,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £84,500 £112,500 £81,875
South East median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +31.82% -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,096 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.39% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,375 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the Thames Valley

Application Security
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Application Security in the Thames Valley

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the Thames Valley

Application Security
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire +8 4 £61,250 -15.52% 6
Buckinghamshire +41 3 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
1 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Post-Production
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) SOLID
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNA
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) GCIA
1 3 (42.86%) SANS
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware