Secure Coding Jobs

Secure Code Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 616 771
Rank change year-on-year +117 +155 -18
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 193 297 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 102 132 97
10th Percentile - £51,750 £45,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,450 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,513 84,700 99,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.28% 85.98% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,566 59,840 58,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,035
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding.

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the UK

Secure Coding
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +125 183 £57,500 -20.13% 307
UK excluding London +121 129 £55,000 -21.43% 276
Work from Home +80 117 £55,000 -18.52% 235
London +123 60 £78,000 -2.31% 84
South East +131 47 £55,000 -21.43% 59
North of England +42 26 £55,500 -30.49% 68
East of England +73 19 £62,500 -1.96% 31
North West -14 19 £62,500 +2.11% 41
South West +79 16 £55,000 -20.00% 42
Midlands +57 12 £62,500 -21.72% 49
Scotland +123 10 £55,000 -8.33% 22
West Midlands +50 10 £70,000 -12.33% 27
Yorkshire +61 6 £53,375 -33.15% 23
East Midlands +46 2 £55,000 - 19
North East +43 1 £55,000 -31.11% 4

Secure Coding
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 9 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.59%) Drupal
3 4 (2.07%) CMS
3 4 (2.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.07%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 121 (62.69%) AWS
2 98 (50.78%) Azure
3 50 (25.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (25.39%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (22.80%) Serverless
6 34 (17.62%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.22%) PaaS
8 9 (4.66%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (4.15%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.15%) GCP
10 7 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.63%) GitHub
11 6 (3.11%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (2.59%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Network Security
2 5 (2.59%) Firewall
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.91%) Elasticsearch
2 33 (17.10%) DynamoDB
3 19 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.74%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.22%) MySQL
7 5 (2.59%) DocumentDB
7 5 (2.59%) Redis
8 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.55%) Power BI
10 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.04%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.52%) Endeca
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (11.40%) Git
2 11 (5.70%) GitLab
3 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.66%) JIRA
5 4 (2.07%) Mocha
6 3 (1.55%) NUnit
7 2 (1.04%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) MSTest
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) xUnit.net
General
1 73 (37.82%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (32.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (18.13%) Finance
4 20 (10.36%) Social Skills
5 12 (6.22%) Banking
6 6 (3.11%) Law
7 5 (2.59%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.07%) Electronics
8 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (68.39%) Developer
2 74 (38.34%) Software Developer
3 61 (31.61%) Senior
4 50 (25.91%) Senior Developer
5 29 (15.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (10.36%) Senior Software Developer
7 19 (9.84%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.70%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) React Developer
11 9 (4.66%) Analyst
11 9 (4.66%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (4.66%) Security Analyst
12 7 (3.63%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 7 (3.63%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (3.11%) AWS Developer
13 6 (3.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (55.44%) Node.js
2 82 (42.49%) .NET
3 63 (32.64%) React
4 49 (25.39%) Pandas
5 37 (19.17%) GraphQL
6 17 (8.81%) CSS
7 15 (7.77%) HTML
8 14 (7.25%) REST
9 11 (5.70%) .NET Framework
9 11 (5.70%) Middleware
9 11 (5.70%) RESTful
10 10 (5.18%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.18%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.66%) Vue
12 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.63%) HTML5
12 7 (3.63%) Svelte
13 6 (3.11%) Jest
13 6 (3.11%) OAuth
13 6 (3.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.39%) Cyberattack
2 10 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.15%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.59%) Blog
5 5 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.07%) EMV
6 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (30.57%) Android
2 56 (29.02%) Linux
3 10 (5.18%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.85%) CI/CD
2 97 (50.26%) Agile
3 85 (44.04%) Kanban
4 84 (43.52%) OWASP
5 71 (36.79%) Software Engineering
6 66 (34.20%) Containerisation
7 60 (31.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (30.05%) Test Automation
9 57 (29.53%) Collaborative Working
10 56 (29.02%) OO
10 56 (29.02%) OOP
11 54 (27.98%) Android Development
12 53 (27.46%) Unit Testing
13 52 (26.94%) Design Patterns
14 51 (26.42%) Mathematics
15 49 (25.39%) Line Management
15 49 (25.39%) Statistics
16 44 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (22.28%) Microservices
18 39 (20.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (49.74%) JavaScript
2 77 (39.90%) Java
3 65 (33.68%) Python
4 63 (32.64%) C++
5 57 (29.53%) Go
6 54 (27.98%) Rust
7 49 (25.39%) TypeScript
8 33 (17.10%) C#
9 18 (9.33%) SQL
10 10 (5.18%) PHP
11 6 (3.11%) Bicep
12 4 (2.07%) C
12 4 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.07%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.55%) Ruby
13 3 (1.55%) Scala
14 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.52%) Bash
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
15 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 55 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.94%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.22%) Degree
4 7 (3.63%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.11%) CISSP
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.59%) CISA
6 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.07%) SSCP
8 3 (1.55%) CSSLP
8 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) CCNA
9 2 (1.04%) CCNP
9 2 (1.04%) CEH
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CISM
10 1 (0.52%) GIAC
10 1 (0.52%) ISACA
10 1 (0.52%) MCSD
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (10.36%) NIST
3 18 (9.33%) GDPR
4 6 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.11%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.11%) QA
5 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 72 (37.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Squid
Systems Management
1 68 (35.23%) Kubernetes
2 53 (27.46%) Terraform
3 51 (26.42%) Ansible
4 5 (2.59%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.52%) Kibana
6 1 (0.52%) Nessus
6 1 (0.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.63%) Oracle
3 5 (2.59%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.07%) Google
5 3 (1.55%) Alibaba
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco
6 2 (1.04%) F5
6 2 (1.04%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.04%) iManage
6 2 (1.04%) Okta
6 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.04%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.52%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.52%) New Relic
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk