Application Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 416 537
Rank change year-on-year +13 +121 -115
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 200 256 353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.66% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 151 190 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £30,900 £34,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £84,919 £88,438 £85,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,859 38,849 68,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.22% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,373 27,016 41,283
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Application Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Security.

Application Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Application Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Application Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.50%) Azure
2 48 (24.00%) AWS
3 20 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.50%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.50%) SaaS
5 11 (5.50%) Azure AKS
6 10 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.50%) IaaS
7 9 (4.50%) PaaS
8 7 (3.50%) Serverless
9 6 (3.00%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.50%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 77 (38.50%) WAN
2 52 (26.00%) Firewall
3 42 (21.00%) LAN
4 41 (20.50%) VPN
5 38 (19.00%) Internet
6 33 (16.50%) SD-WAN
7 14 (7.00%) Wireless
8 8 (4.00%) Network Security
9 6 (3.00%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.00%) BGP
10 4 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (2.00%) MPLS
10 4 (2.00%) OSPF
10 4 (2.00%) tcpdump
10 4 (2.00%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.00%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.00%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.50%) Looker
2 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Burp Suite
1 6 (3.00%) Metasploit
2 4 (2.00%) Git
3 3 (1.50%) Moq
3 3 (1.50%) Postman
3 3 (1.50%) Selenium
3 3 (1.50%) SoapUI
3 3 (1.50%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) Grunt
4 1 (0.50%) gulp
General
1 60 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Retail
3 28 (14.00%) Finance
4 14 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.50%) Health Technology
6 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.00%) Law
7 9 (4.50%) Legal
7 9 (4.50%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.00%) Marketing
9 6 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Electronics
12 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (35.50%) Architect
2 64 (32.00%) Senior
3 44 (22.00%) Security Architect
4 33 (16.50%) Lead
5 27 (13.50%) Lead Architect
5 27 (13.50%) Lead Security Architect
6 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure Architect
6 21 (10.50%) Security Engineer
7 16 (8.00%) Analyst
7 16 (8.00%) Security Analyst
8 15 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) Developer
9 12 (6.00%) Penetration Tester
9 12 (6.00%) Tester
10 9 (4.50%) Analytics Manager
10 9 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) Fraud Manager
11 7 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.50%) REST
2 6 (3.00%) .NET
2 6 (3.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (3.00%) Entity Framework
2 6 (3.00%) HTML
2 6 (3.00%) SOAP
2 6 (3.00%) Vue
2 6 (3.00%) Web Services
3 5 (2.50%) CSS
4 4 (2.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.00%) Middleware
5 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.50%) HTML5
5 3 (1.50%) Swagger
6 2 (1.00%) CSS3
6 2 (1.00%) OAuth
6 2 (1.00%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (1.00%) React
6 2 (1.00%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.50%) Management Information System
2 41 (20.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (5.00%) PKI
3 10 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.50%) IoT
8 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.50%) W3C
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.00%) Robotics
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (26.50%) Windows
2 37 (18.50%) Linux
3 36 (18.00%) Ubuntu
3 36 (18.00%) VMS
4 15 (7.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.00%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.00%) Information Security
2 66 (33.00%) OWASP
3 61 (30.50%) DevSecOps
4 58 (29.00%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (26.50%) Security Architecture
6 47 (23.50%) Agile
7 42 (21.00%) CI/CD
8 41 (20.50%) Identity Management
9 39 (19.50%) Collaborative Culture
9 39 (19.50%) Secure Coding
10 37 (18.50%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (13.00%) Vulnerability Management
13 24 (12.00%) ITIL
14 22 (11.00%) DevOps
15 21 (10.50%) Penetration Testing
15 21 (10.50%) Security Testing
16 20 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
16 20 (10.00%) SIEM
17 19 (9.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.50%) SQL
2 12 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.50%) C#
4 9 (4.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (4.50%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.00%) Python
6 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.50%) Java
8 3 (1.50%) PHP
8 3 (1.50%) R
9 2 (1.00%) Dart
9 2 (1.00%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.00%) Lua
9 2 (1.00%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.00%) Ruby
9 2 (1.00%) Rust
9 2 (1.00%) Swift
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 49 (24.50%) CISSP
2 48 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 41 (20.50%) CISM
4 39 (19.50%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (19.50%) DV Cleared
5 37 (18.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 37 (18.50%) Degree
6 36 (18.00%) Azure Certification
6 36 (18.00%) CCSP
7 34 (17.00%) AWS Certification
8 33 (16.50%) CCSK
9 13 (6.50%) CHECK Team Member
9 13 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (6.00%) CREST Certified
10 12 (6.00%) Cyber Scheme
11 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
12 9 (4.50%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (4.00%) CHECK Team Leader
13 8 (4.00%) GIAC
13 8 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (29.50%) NIST
2 20 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.00%) GRC
4 9 (4.50%) SOC 2
5 8 (4.00%) COBIT
6 6 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (3.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.00%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.50%) GDPR
7 5 (2.50%) SLA
8 4 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.50%) NCSC
9 3 (1.50%) QA
9 3 (1.50%) WCAG
10 2 (1.00%) ISO 31000
10 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 42 (21.00%) Docker
3 10 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (27.00%) Terraform
2 53 (26.50%) Kubernetes
3 43 (21.50%) Single Sign-On
4 36 (18.00%) Ansible
5 8 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (3.00%) Nmap
7 3 (1.50%) QRadar
7 3 (1.50%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.00%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.00%) VMware
3 4 (2.00%) F5
3 4 (2.00%) Splunk
4 3 (1.50%) IBM
4 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.00%) Aruba
5 2 (1.00%) Cisco
5 2 (1.00%) Qualys
5 2 (1.00%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.50%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.50%) Siemens
6 1 (0.50%) Symantec