Static Application Security Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
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 Static Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Static Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 619 792
Rank change year-on-year +55 +173 -236
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 33 17 83
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.094% 0.045% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.046% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 73
10th Percentile - £78,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,991 £104,193 £113,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -31.43% +9.38% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Static Application Security Testing 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 31,593 36,660 73,028
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.96% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,662 26,006 42,172
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Static Application Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Static Application Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Static Application Security Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Static Application Security Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Static Application Security Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) AWS
1 21 (63.64%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) SaaS
3 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) GitHub
3 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (30.30%) IaaS
3 10 (30.30%) PaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
5 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Banking
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Retail
3 3 (9.09%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) IT Manager
1 7 (21.21%) Vulnerability Manager
2 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Security Specialist
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) ARM Templates
1 10 (30.30%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (12.12%) Kafka
3 3 (9.09%) OAuth
3 3 (9.09%) OpenID
3 3 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Onboarding
2 10 (30.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) CentOS
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Solaris
1 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
1 4 (12.12%) Unix
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
1 4 (12.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 17 (51.52%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (51.52%) DevSecOps
3 11 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
4 10 (30.30%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (30.30%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (30.30%) DevOps
4 10 (30.30%) Functional Testing
4 10 (30.30%) Mentoring
4 10 (30.30%) Non-Functional Testing
4 10 (30.30%) Patch Management
4 10 (30.30%) Performance Analysis
4 10 (30.30%) Project Management
4 10 (30.30%) Release Management
4 10 (30.30%) SIEM
4 10 (30.30%) Software Engineering
4 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) C#
2 1 (3.03%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) CISSP
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.12%) CEH
3 4 (12.12%) CISM
3 4 (12.12%) GSEC
3 4 (12.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) NCSC
2 8 (24.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (24.24%) NIST
3 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (9.09%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 10 (30.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Qualys
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk