Dynamic Application Security Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 745 795
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 -144
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 31 23 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.037% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.039% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 53
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,000 -
25th Percentile - £60,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £92,750 £114,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.71% +9.38% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 59,415 58,778 66,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 95.62% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 41,129 30,196 41,543
10th Percentile £27,117 £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%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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 Dynamic Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South East +14 10 - - 1
West Midlands +23 9 £60,000 -27.27%
Midlands +20 9 £60,000 -27.27%
South West - 8 £65,000 - 3
North of England +47 4 £57,500 -28.13% 1
North West +10 4 £57,500 -39.47% 1
Dynamic Application Security Testing
UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) Azure
2 18 (58.06%) SaaS
3 17 (54.84%) AWS
4 8 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) GitHub
4 8 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (25.81%) IaaS
4 8 (25.81%) PaaS
5 7 (22.58%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
1 2 (6.45%) LAN
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
1 2 (6.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) SonarQube
2 3 (9.68%) Git
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Architect
1 10 (32.26%) Security Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Security Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) .NET Developer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Information Security Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Information Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) React Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) .NET
1 13 (41.94%) React
2 8 (25.81%) ARM Templates
2 8 (25.81%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (9.68%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) OpenID
4 2 (6.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Onboarding
1 12 (38.71%) Product Ownership
1 12 (38.71%) Security Posture
2 8 (25.81%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 19 (61.29%) OWASP
3 17 (54.84%) Agile
4 14 (45.16%) DevSecOps
5 12 (38.71%) SDLC
6 11 (35.48%) DevOps
7 10 (32.26%) Business Strategy
7 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
7 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (32.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
7 10 (32.26%) Technical Architecture
7 10 (32.26%) Time Management
7 10 (32.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
9 8 (25.81%) Functional Testing
9 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (25.81%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (25.81%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) C#
2 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) OSCP
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) CEH
3 4 (12.90%) CISSP
3 4 (12.90%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) NCSC
2 4 (12.90%) NIST
3 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) Ansible
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes