Interactive Application Security Testing Jobs

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Interactive Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 711 906 913
Rank change year-on-year +195 +7 +354
Permanent jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing 15 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.007% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £65,500 £89,750 -
25th Percentile £69,750 £91,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £87,688 £103,750 £90,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,555 88,965 84,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 82.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27,659 61,319 52,810
10th Percentile £27,367 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Interactive Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Interactive Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing.

Salary trend for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Interactive Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Interactive Application Security Testing in the UK

Interactive Application Security Testing
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +178 15 £71,500 -26.67% 123
UK excluding London +186 14 £71,500 - 115
North of England - 9 - - 21
Yorkshire - 9 - - 10
South East - 3 £71,500 - 27
East of England - 2 £71,500 - 18
London +102 1 £95,000 -2.56% 19

Interactive Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (33.33%) Appian
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) MinIO
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 5 (33.33%) Selenium
1 5 (33.33%) Snyk
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 9 (60.00%) Security Specialist
2 5 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 14 (93.33%) Security Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (60.00%) Fuzz Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Incident Management
4 9 (60.00%) Incident Response
4 9 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 9 (60.00%) Security Architecture
4 9 (60.00%) SIEM
4 9 (60.00%) SOAR
4 9 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 9 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (40.00%) Application Security
5 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 5 (33.33%) Secrets Management
6 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (33.33%) Black Duck
2 5 (33.33%) UiPath
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Blue Prism
3 1 (6.67%) Coverity