Application Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 491 544
Rank change year-on-year -84 +53 -88
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 187 277 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 143 155 234
10th Percentile £42,300 £27,750 £32,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £84,919 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,850 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,192 58,753 66,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,002 30,145 41,524
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the UK excluding London

Application Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
North of England +16 65 £61,206 +4.18% 15
South East -12 58 £72,500 +28.89% 18
North West 0 39 £60,603 -3.04% 5
Midlands -7 26 £60,000 - 7
West Midlands +23 25 £60,000 -17.81% 7
South West -6 22 £73,750 -34.44% 4
Yorkshire +84 18 £79,842 +33.07% 7
Scotland -56 16 £50,000 +5.96%
North East +1 8 £64,921 +36.68% 3
Wales +15 2 £65,000 +74.98% 1
East Midlands -15 1 £65,000 +18.18%
East of England -22 1 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.07%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.07%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.53%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 88 (47.06%) Azure
2 73 (39.04%) AWS
3 22 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.49%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (6.42%) SaaS
6 11 (5.88%) PaaS
7 9 (4.81%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.28%) IaaS
9 5 (2.67%) GCP
10 4 (2.14%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.14%) Serverless
11 3 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.60%) npm
11 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (16.04%) WAN
2 29 (15.51%) SD-WAN
3 28 (14.97%) Network Security
4 11 (5.88%) Firewall
5 5 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.14%) Internet
6 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.14%) VPN
6 4 (2.14%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.07%) HTTP
7 2 (1.07%) Wireless
7 2 (1.07%) Wireless Security
8 1 (0.53%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.07%) MySQL
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Git
2 5 (2.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.14%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.07%) Selenium
4 2 (1.07%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.07%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.53%) Gradle
5 1 (0.53%) Grunt
5 1 (0.53%) gulp
5 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) MSI
5 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (18.72%) Finance
2 28 (14.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.70%) Law
4 17 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.02%) Telecoms
6 14 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.88%) Marketing
9 7 (3.74%) Retail
10 6 (3.21%) Legal
10 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.07%) Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 75 (40.11%) Architect
2 55 (29.41%) Senior
3 53 (28.34%) Security Architect
4 39 (20.86%) Lead
5 37 (19.79%) Lead Architect
6 26 (13.90%) Lead Security Architect
7 18 (9.63%) Senior Architect
8 15 (8.02%) Consultant
9 14 (7.49%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 14 (7.49%) Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Security Engineer
10 11 (5.88%) Security Manager
10 11 (5.88%) Security Researcher
11 9 (4.81%) Administrator
11 9 (4.81%) Security Consultant
11 9 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.28%) Analyst
12 8 (4.28%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Security Assurance Manager
13 7 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.95%) OAuth
1 13 (6.95%) React
2 11 (5.88%) RESTful
3 9 (4.81%) .NET
4 8 (4.28%) CSS
4 8 (4.28%) HTML
5 7 (3.74%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.74%) SAML
5 7 (3.74%) Web Services
6 6 (3.21%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.67%) Node.js
8 4 (2.14%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.14%) CSS3
8 4 (2.14%) HTML5
8 4 (2.14%) JSON
8 4 (2.14%) Vue
9 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.60%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.07%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.39%) Management Information System
2 35 (18.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 20 (10.70%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.42%) Replication
5 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 11 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.28%) PKI
8 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.21%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.07%) Life Science
11 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
12 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.70%) Windows
2 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 10 (5.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.07%) Android
4 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.29%) OWASP
2 63 (33.69%) Information Security
3 61 (32.62%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (22.46%) CI/CD
5 39 (20.86%) Identity Management
5 39 (20.86%) Security Architecture
6 38 (20.32%) Secure Coding
7 37 (19.79%) DevOps
8 36 (19.25%) Computer Science
9 34 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
9 34 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.04%) Identity Access Management
11 27 (14.44%) Vulnerability Management
12 26 (13.90%) Software Engineering
13 24 (12.83%) Security Operations
14 23 (12.30%) Risk Management
14 23 (12.30%) Threat Modelling
15 22 (11.76%) ITIL
15 22 (11.76%) SDLC
15 22 (11.76%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.58%) SQL
2 25 (13.37%) Python
3 22 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.42%) Java
5 8 (4.28%) C#
6 7 (3.74%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.67%) C
7 5 (2.67%) R
7 5 (2.67%) Scala
7 5 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.60%) PHP
10 2 (1.07%) C++
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (33.69%) CISSP
2 53 (28.34%) CISM
3 38 (20.32%) Degree
4 37 (19.79%) AWS Certification
5 34 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (17.65%) Azure Certification
7 31 (16.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 31 (16.58%) CCSP
8 29 (15.51%) CCSK
9 18 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (5.88%) Security Cleared
11 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
12 9 (4.81%) SANS
13 8 (4.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (4.28%) GIAC
13 8 (4.28%) GPEN
13 8 (4.28%) PCI QSA
14 7 (3.74%) OSCP
15 5 (2.67%) CISA
15 5 (2.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (33.16%) NIST
2 22 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.09%) GRC
4 16 (8.56%) GDPR
5 11 (5.88%) PCI DSS
6 10 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (4.81%) NIST 800
8 8 (4.28%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.67%) NCSC
10 4 (2.14%) COBIT
11 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.60%) QA
12 2 (1.07%) ITGC
13 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (24.06%) Docker
2 15 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.28%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (28.88%) Kubernetes
2 36 (19.25%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.88%) Terraform
4 8 (4.28%) Nessus
5 6 (3.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (2.14%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.60%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.60%) Suricata
7 3 (1.60%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.07%) Ansible
9 1 (0.53%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.42%) VMware
3 6 (3.21%) Qualys
4 5 (2.67%) Juniper
5 4 (2.14%) Splunk
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco
6 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.60%) Veracode
7 2 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.07%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle
7 2 (1.07%) SAP
7 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Capita
8 1 (0.53%) Civica
8 1 (0.53%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) NEC
8 1 (0.53%) Symantec