Secure Coding Jobs in the West Midlands

Secure Code Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 187 237 267
Rank change year-on-year +50 +30 +19
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 10 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.14% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,842 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +52.08% +34.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.13% -4.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,052 6,031 6,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.06% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 4,537 3,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% +6.50%
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%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the West Midlands

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Secure Coding in the West Midlands

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in the West Midlands

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the West Midlands region 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
Staffordshire - 5 £70,000 - 3
Birmingham +35 2 £50,000 -37.38% 2
Solihull - 2 £53,750 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 3
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 5 (50.00%) IT Development Manager
1 5 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (50.00%) Laravel
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Jest
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Android
2 5 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) OWASP
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Android Development
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) iOS Development
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (50.00%) Workflow
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) OOP
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CEH
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle