Application Security Jobs in the West Midlands

Application Security (AppSec)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Application Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 226 244
Rank change year-on-year +33 +18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 7 24 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 25
10th Percentile - - £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -19.52% +39.05%
75th Percentile £68,125 £82,439 £86,250
90th Percentile £74,500 £88,592 £93,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Application Security 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the West Midlands

Application Security
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Birmingham +25 1 £77,500 +14.81% 2
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Google App Engine
3 4 (57.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Spanner
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) QualityStage
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Express.js
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) React
1 4 (57.14%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler