Application Security Jobs in England

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 460 541
Rank change year-on-year -16 +81 -69
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 397 564 812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 271 330 461
10th Percentile £47,750 £40,975 £36,750
25th Percentile £56,809 £57,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,875 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Security in England.

Salary trend for Application Security in England

Application Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Security in England

Application Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +50 230 £75,000 -14.29% 46
North of England +19 66 £61,853 -2.98% 22
South East -11 56 £71,250 +39.02% 22
North West -16 38 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Midlands -17 23 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands +6 22 £57,500 -13.53% 7
Yorkshire +74 19 £79,842 +27.75% 8
South West -16 17 £75,000 -25.00% 6
North East +5 9 £62,500 +31.58% 3
East Midlands -21 1 £44,500 -19.09% 1
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (34.01%) Azure
2 93 (23.43%) AWS
3 47 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (4.53%) GCP
6 17 (4.28%) SaaS
7 15 (3.78%) Azure AKS
8 14 (3.53%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.02%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.77%) PaaS
11 10 (2.52%) IaaS
12 8 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.26%) Serverless
15 4 (1.01%) Azure App Service
15 4 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 3 (0.76%) AWS CodePipeline
16 3 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 97 (24.43%) Firewall
2 79 (19.90%) WAN
3 63 (15.87%) Network Security
4 52 (13.10%) VPN
5 44 (11.08%) LAN
6 42 (10.58%) Internet
7 34 (8.56%) SD-WAN
8 17 (4.28%) Wireless
9 10 (2.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (2.02%) TCP/IP
10 8 (2.02%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (1.01%) HTTP
11 4 (1.01%) MPLS
11 4 (1.01%) OSPF
11 4 (1.01%) tcpdump
11 4 (1.01%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.02%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (1.51%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.26%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.76%) Looker
6 3 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (10.33%) Burp Suite
2 36 (9.07%) Metasploit
3 9 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.26%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.76%) Git
6 3 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.76%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.50%) JIRA
7 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.25%) Grunt
8 1 (0.25%) gulp
8 1 (0.25%) Moq
8 1 (0.25%) MSI
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.41%) Finance
3 57 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.59%) Retail
5 20 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.04%) Law
6 19 (4.79%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.53%) Banking
7 14 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.02%) Health Technology
8 12 (3.02%) Legal
8 12 (3.02%) Marketing
9 9 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.27%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
13 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 135 (34.01%) Architect
2 112 (28.21%) Senior
3 84 (21.16%) Security Architect
4 42 (10.58%) Analyst
5 41 (10.33%) Lead
5 41 (10.33%) Security Analyst
6 37 (9.32%) Penetration Tester
7 36 (9.07%) Lead Architect
7 36 (9.07%) Tester
8 33 (8.31%) Security Engineer
9 31 (7.81%) Lead Security Architect
10 25 (6.30%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (6.05%) Consultant
11 24 (6.05%) Senior Security Analyst
12 21 (5.29%) Infrastructure Architect
13 18 (4.53%) CISSP Analyst
14 17 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (4.03%) IT Analyst
15 16 (4.03%) IT Security Analyst
15 16 (4.03%) Senior IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.03%) OAuth
2 11 (2.77%) SailPoint
3 10 (2.52%) Web Services
4 9 (2.27%) .NET
4 9 (2.27%) HTML
4 9 (2.27%) React
5 8 (2.02%) OAuth2
5 8 (2.02%) REST
5 8 (2.02%) RESTful
6 7 (1.76%) CSS
6 7 (1.76%) SAML
6 7 (1.76%) web3js
7 6 (1.51%) Kafka
7 6 (1.51%) Middleware
8 5 (1.26%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.26%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.01%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.01%) HTML5
9 4 (1.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.64%) Management Information System
2 42 (10.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 22 (5.54%) PKI
4 21 (5.29%) Security Posture
5 19 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 13 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 13 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.02%) Replication
9 11 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
10 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.27%) Robotics
11 8 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.76%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.76%) Web3
13 5 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (20.15%) Linux
2 69 (17.38%) Windows
3 36 (9.07%) Ubuntu
3 36 (9.07%) VMS
4 33 (8.31%) Kali Linux
5 19 (4.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.50%) Android
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (37.28%) Cybersecurity
2 120 (30.23%) Information Security
3 92 (23.17%) DevSecOps
3 92 (23.17%) OWASP
4 83 (20.91%) Penetration Testing
5 79 (19.90%) Security Architecture
6 77 (19.40%) Cloud Security
6 77 (19.40%) Computer Science
7 75 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 75 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (14.61%) Agile
9 55 (13.85%) Security Testing
10 52 (13.10%) Vulnerability Management
11 51 (12.85%) Secure Coding
12 50 (12.59%) SIEM
13 47 (11.84%) DevOps
14 46 (11.59%) Identity Management
14 46 (11.59%) Security Operations
15 43 (10.83%) Identity Access Management
16 40 (10.08%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 41 (10.33%) SQL
2 33 (8.31%) Python
3 27 (6.80%) PowerShell
4 19 (4.79%) Java
5 18 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.02%) C#
7 9 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (2.02%) R
9 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.51%) C
10 6 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.26%) Scala
12 3 (0.76%) Bash
12 3 (0.76%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) Dart
14 1 (0.25%) Lua
14 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.25%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 116 (29.22%) CISSP
2 108 (27.20%) Degree
3 69 (17.38%) CISM
4 56 (14.11%) Cisco Certification
5 53 (13.35%) Security Cleared
6 52 (13.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 51 (12.85%) CCSP
7 51 (12.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (12.09%) Azure Certification
9 45 (11.34%) AWS Certification
10 41 (10.33%) DV Cleared
11 33 (8.31%) CCSK
12 14 (3.53%) PCI QSA
13 13 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (3.27%) OSCP
13 13 (3.27%) SC Cleared
14 12 (3.02%) GIAC
15 11 (2.77%) CEH
15 11 (2.77%) SANS
16 10 (2.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (20.15%) NIST
2 33 (8.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (6.05%) GRC
3 24 (6.05%) PCI DSS
4 17 (4.28%) GDPR
5 13 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.27%) NIST 800
6 9 (2.27%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.76%) COBIT
7 7 (1.76%) NCSC
8 6 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (1.26%) SLA
10 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.76%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.76%) QA
12 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.50%) ITGC
12 2 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (15.37%) Active Directory
2 56 (14.11%) Docker
3 14 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (17.38%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.35%) Terraform
3 45 (11.34%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (11.08%) Ansible
5 9 (2.27%) Nmap
6 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.76%) Nessus
8 6 (1.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (1.26%) Kiali
9 5 (1.26%) Suricata
10 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.76%) QRadar
11 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.50%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.25%) CASB
13 1 (0.25%) WMI
13 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.78%) Splunk
2 15 (3.78%) VMware
3 13 (3.27%) CyberArk
4 11 (2.77%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (2.77%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.52%) Qualys
6 8 (2.02%) Juniper
7 7 (1.76%) Cisco
8 5 (1.26%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.26%) F5
8 5 (1.26%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.01%) Google
10 3 (0.76%) IBM
10 3 (0.76%) Oracle
10 3 (0.76%) SAP
10 3 (0.76%) Veracode
11 2 (0.50%) Alibaba
11 2 (0.50%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.50%) HP