Application Security Job Trends in West Sussex

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Application Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.25% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% - -
South East median annual salary £67,000 £85,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year -21.18% +47.19% -7.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 365 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 88.64% 79.69% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 238 208 366
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,175
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.80% -0.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,938
90th Percentile £75,262 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in West Sussex

Application Security
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
East Grinstead - 1 £50,000 -
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Thales
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro