Secure Coding Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Code Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 557 685
Rank change year-on-year +97 +128 -4
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 125 208 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 63 90 40
10th Percentile - £45,875 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £84,919 £83,313
90th Percentile £78,000 - £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Secure Coding 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 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the UK excluding London

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +113 45 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North of England +7 25 £55,000 -31.11% 36
East of England +59 19 £62,500 -1.96% 5
North West -35 18 £58,750 -4.01% 24
South West +85 16 £55,000 -18.52% 25
Midlands +60 12 £62,500 -21.72% 22
West Midlands +56 10 £70,000 -12.33% 12
Scotland +104 9 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Yorkshire +53 6 £53,375 -33.15% 11
East Midlands +32 2 £55,000 - 9
North East +37 1 £55,000 -31.11% 1
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
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 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (71.20%) AWS
2 59 (47.20%) Azure
3 39 (31.20%) Serverless
4 37 (29.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (28.80%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (24.80%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (5.60%) Azure Functions
8 7 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.00%) Azure App Service
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.00%) PaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.40%) GCP
11 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.60%) GitHub
12 2 (1.60%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.60%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (24.80%) DynamoDB
3 14 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (9.60%) MySQL
5 10 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.60%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.60%) Power BI
10 1 (0.80%) Endeca
10 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) GitLab
2 10 (8.00%) Git
3 9 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.60%) Mocha
5 1 (0.80%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.80%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.80%) Maven
5 1 (0.80%) Moq
5 1 (0.80%) MSTest
5 1 (0.80%) NUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) xUnit.net
General
1 50 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (31.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (15.20%) Finance
4 9 (7.20%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Electronics
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (77.60%) Developer
2 59 (47.20%) Software Developer
3 43 (34.40%) Senior
4 36 (28.80%) Senior Developer
5 21 (16.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (15.20%) Senior Software Developer
7 13 (10.40%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 7 (5.60%) JavaScript Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.00%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Development Manager
10 5 (4.00%) IT Development Manager
10 5 (4.00%) IT Manager
10 5 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Embedded Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 3 (2.40%) Lead
12 3 (2.40%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (68.00%) Node.js
2 56 (44.80%) .NET
3 47 (37.60%) React
4 36 (28.80%) Pandas
5 30 (24.00%) GraphQL
6 11 (8.80%) REST
7 10 (8.00%) .NET Framework
8 9 (7.20%) Middleware
9 8 (6.40%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.60%) CSS
10 7 (5.60%) HTML
10 7 (5.60%) Svelte
11 5 (4.00%) CodeIgniter
11 5 (4.00%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.00%) Laravel
11 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.00%) Vue
12 4 (3.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.80%) Cyberattack
2 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.20%) EMV
4 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (36.80%) Android
2 40 (32.00%) Linux
3 10 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.00%) Kanban
2 67 (53.60%) Agile
3 65 (52.00%) CI/CD
4 54 (43.20%) OWASP
5 52 (41.60%) Software Engineering
6 50 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (37.60%) Containerisation
8 42 (33.60%) Test Automation
9 41 (32.80%) Android Development
10 38 (30.40%) Collaborative Working
10 38 (30.40%) Mathematics
10 38 (30.40%) OO
10 38 (30.40%) OOP
11 37 (29.60%) Design Patterns
11 37 (29.60%) Microservices
11 37 (29.60%) Unit Testing
12 36 (28.80%) Line Management
12 36 (28.80%) Statistics
13 32 (25.60%) Clean Code
13 32 (25.60%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) JavaScript
2 51 (40.80%) Java
3 46 (36.80%) C++
4 42 (33.60%) TypeScript
5 39 (31.20%) Go
6 38 (30.40%) Rust
7 37 (29.60%) Python
8 23 (18.40%) C#
9 11 (8.80%) SQL
10 5 (4.00%) Bicep
10 5 (4.00%) PHP
11 4 (3.20%) C
12 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.60%) Scala
13 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.80%) Bash
14 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (30.40%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.40%) CISSP
7 2 (1.60%) CEH
7 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.80%) MCSD
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) GDPR
2 9 (7.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.20%) QA
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) NIST
5 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 52 (41.60%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (38.40%) Kubernetes
2 40 (32.00%) Terraform
3 38 (30.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle
4 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.60%) ForgeRock
4 2 (1.60%) iManage
4 2 (1.60%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.80%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.80%) New Relic