Application Security Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Application Security (AppSec)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
East London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 17 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 90.00% 94.44% 63.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 30
10th Percentile £63,125 £26,200 £24,400
25th Percentile £67,188 £48,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £99,000 £108,500
East London median annual salary £68,750 £47,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year +43.98% +19.38% -36.00%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Application Security
Salary Trend in Tower Hamlets

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Application Security
East London

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing