Interactive Application Security Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 - 556
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 21 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% - 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £35,900 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 - -
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,750 - £95,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Interactive 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Interactive Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Interactive Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interactive Application Security Testing

Interactive Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

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

Interactive 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 Interactive Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 - 21 £78,000 -
Interactive Application Security Testing
UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (23.81%) Appian
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
1 20 (95.24%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
3 5 (23.81%) MinIO
3 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 20 (95.24%) Robot Framework
1 20 (95.24%) Selenium
1 20 (95.24%) Snyk
2 16 (76.19%) Git
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 8 (38.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Junior
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 21 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 21 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 20 (95.24%) DevOps
2 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (95.24%) Test Management
3 17 (80.95%) Agile
4 16 (76.19%) Scrum
5 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (57.14%) Build Automation
6 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
6 12 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
8 7 (33.33%) Dependency Management
9 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
9 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (23.81%) Microservices
9 5 (23.81%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) Ansible
1 20 (95.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Black Duck
2 19 (90.48%) Coverity
3 5 (23.81%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (23.81%) UiPath
3 5 (23.81%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Blue Prism