Dynamic Application Security Testing Job Trends

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 651 696
Rank change year-on-year +48 +45 +252
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 39 56 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.10% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.12% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 28
10th Percentile £37,375 £60,000 £60,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £63,750 £74,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -5.82% +2.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,875 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,750 £75,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.67% -5.82% +13.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Dynamic 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +65 38 £85,000 +13.33% 12
UK excluding London +43 25 £80,750 +7.67% 7
South East +39 22 £83,500 - 3
London +42 12 £91,250 -10.98% 8
Work from Home +39 8 £37,500 -50.00% 9
Midlands +6 2 £37,500 -50.00%
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 -
North of England - 1 - - 2

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (10.26%) Apache
1 4 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.26%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) Azure
2 25 (64.10%) AWS
2 25 (64.10%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.26%) MinIO
5 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) DNS
2 5 (12.82%) HTTP
2 5 (12.82%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.82%) VPN
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (7.69%) AMQP
5 1 (2.56%) Wireless
5 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 24 (61.54%) Snyk
2 19 (48.72%) Robot Framework
2 19 (48.72%) Selenium
3 17 (43.59%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) TeamCity
5 3 (7.69%) GitLab
5 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Metasploit
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 16 (41.03%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Back Office
4 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Security Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Lead
3 9 (23.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Applications Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Junior
7 1 (2.56%) Release Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (10.26%) Kafka
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 9 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (17.95%) Security Posture
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (10.26%) Blog
5 4 (10.26%) Low-Code
6 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) CI/CD
2 28 (71.79%) DevOps
3 27 (69.23%) Test Automation
4 26 (66.67%) DevSecOps
4 26 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (53.85%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 21 (53.85%) Secrets Management
6 20 (51.28%) Test Management
7 19 (48.72%) Static Application Security Testing
8 18 (46.15%) Agile
9 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (41.03%) Scrum
10 14 (35.90%) OWASP
10 14 (35.90%) Roadmaps
11 12 (30.77%) Build Automation
12 11 (28.21%) Cloud Security
12 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (25.64%) Application Security
14 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
14 9 (23.08%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) Bash
3 4 (10.26%) Go
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 16 (41.03%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.26%) CISSP
5 2 (5.13%) CISM
6 1 (2.56%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.56%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.56%) GPEN
6 1 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GRC
1 7 (17.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (17.95%) SOC 2
2 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 26 (66.67%) Terraform
2 22 (56.41%) Ansible
3 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.26%) Cilium
5 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.56%) Nessus
6 1 (2.56%) Nmap
6 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Black Duck
1 19 (48.72%) Coverity
2 6 (15.38%) Qualys
2 6 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 5 (12.82%) Checkmarx
4 4 (10.26%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (10.26%) Blue Prism
4 4 (10.26%) UiPath
4 4 (10.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable