Static Application Security Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 718 740
Rank change year-on-year +178 +22 +63
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 31 47 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.064% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.077% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 18 31 7
10th Percentile £61,000 £48,750 £65,250
25th Percentile £74,870 £57,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,905 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% -27.27% +32.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £63,750 £86,875
90th Percentile - £67,500 £93,500
UK median annual salary £78,810 £60,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +31.35% -31.43% +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Static 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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

Static 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 Static Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +43 14 £78,810 +31.35% 12
Yorkshire - 11 £78,810 - 4
West Midlands +57 6 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +53 6 £75,000 +25.00% 4
South West +115 5 £78,810 +21.25% 12
South East +81 3 £57,500 -11.54% 5
North West -8 3 £78,810 +31.35% 7
Scotland - 2 £78,810 - 4
Wales +46 1 £60,000 -
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 16 (51.61%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) Apigee
3 9 (29.03%) GCP
3 9 (29.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 7 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (19.35%) IaaS
5 6 (19.35%) PaaS
5 6 (19.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) SonarQube
2 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (32.26%) Git
4 9 (29.03%) JUnit
4 9 (29.03%) Maven
4 9 (29.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.45%) GitLab
6 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Publishing
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Software Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Senior
3 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 9 (29.03%) Security Specialist
3 9 (29.03%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Operational Security Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Principal Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Risk Management Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) Hibernate
1 9 (29.03%) RESTful
1 9 (29.03%) Spring
1 9 (29.03%) Spring Boot
2 6 (19.35%) ARM Templates
2 6 (19.35%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
1 6 (19.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
1 9 (29.03%) Unix
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 18 (58.06%) Software Engineering
3 17 (54.84%) Test Automation
4 16 (51.61%) DevOps
5 15 (48.39%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
7 11 (35.48%) Microservices
7 11 (35.48%) Security Testing
8 9 (29.03%) Incident Management
8 9 (29.03%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 9 (29.03%) OO
8 9 (29.03%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (29.03%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (29.03%) Security Architecture
8 9 (29.03%) SIEM
8 9 (29.03%) SOAR
8 9 (29.03%) TDD
8 9 (29.03%) Translating Business Requirements
8 9 (29.03%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (29.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) Go
2 9 (29.03%) Java
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 9 (29.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) NCSC
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (51.61%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
1 16 (51.61%) Terraform
2 9 (29.03%) Istio
3 7 (22.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Graphcore
2 1 (3.23%) Pega
2 1 (3.23%) VMware