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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 452 543
Rank change year-on-year -46 +91 -69
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 403 537 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.67% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 274 318 458
10th Percentile £47,750 £40,425 £36,750
25th Percentile £56,809 £57,500 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,125 £115,750 £108,750
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 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +52 228 £77,421 -11.52% 47
North of England +21 69 £61,206 -2.07% 18
South East -20 58 £71,250 +29.55% 17
North West -15 40 £57,500 -11.54% 13
Midlands -18 27 £57,500 -4.17% 11
West Midlands -17 25 £57,500 -13.53% 10
Yorkshire +56 20 £79,842 +27.75% 5
South West -22 15 £75,000 -25.00% 5
North East -4 9 £62,500 +31.58%
East Midlands -20 2 £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 11 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
4 1 (0.25%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (33.25%) Azure
2 86 (21.34%) AWS
3 48 (11.91%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (4.22%) GCP
6 15 (3.72%) Azure AKS
7 13 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.23%) SaaS
8 12 (2.98%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.99%) PaaS
10 7 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.74%) IaaS
11 5 (1.24%) Serverless
12 4 (0.99%) Azure App Service
12 4 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (0.99%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.74%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 98 (24.32%) Firewall
2 84 (20.84%) WAN
3 63 (15.63%) Network Security
4 57 (14.14%) VPN
5 49 (12.16%) LAN
6 45 (11.17%) Internet
7 35 (8.68%) SD-WAN
8 19 (4.71%) Wireless
9 8 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.99%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.99%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.24%) Wireless Security
11 4 (0.99%) BGP
11 4 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.99%) MPLS
11 4 (0.99%) OSPF
11 4 (0.99%) tcpdump
11 4 (0.99%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.99%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.24%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.74%) Looker
6 3 (0.74%) 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 (10.17%) Burp Suite
2 36 (8.93%) Metasploit
3 9 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.24%) Git
5 5 (1.24%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.74%) Selenium
6 3 (0.74%) 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
1 126 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.09%) Finance
3 59 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.16%) Retail
5 20 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.71%) Law
6 19 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.47%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.23%) Banking
9 12 (2.98%) Health Technology
9 12 (2.98%) Legal
9 12 (2.98%) Marketing
10 9 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.23%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Electronics
13 2 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (33.25%) Architect
2 119 (29.53%) Senior
3 86 (21.34%) Security Architect
4 42 (10.42%) Lead
5 41 (10.17%) Analyst
6 40 (9.93%) Security Analyst
7 38 (9.43%) Penetration Tester
8 37 (9.18%) Lead Architect
8 37 (9.18%) Tester
9 36 (8.93%) Security Engineer
10 32 (7.94%) Lead Security Architect
11 25 (6.20%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (5.96%) Senior Security Analyst
13 23 (5.71%) Consultant
14 22 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (5.21%) Infrastructure Architect
16 19 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 16 (3.97%) CISSP Analyst
17 16 (3.97%) IT Security Analyst
17 16 (3.97%) Senior IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.72%) OAuth
2 11 (2.73%) .NET
2 11 (2.73%) SailPoint
3 10 (2.48%) Web Services
4 9 (2.23%) React
5 8 (1.99%) HTML
5 8 (1.99%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.99%) REST
5 8 (1.99%) RESTful
6 7 (1.74%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.74%) CSS
6 7 (1.74%) SAML
7 6 (1.49%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.49%) Kafka
7 6 (1.49%) web3js
8 5 (1.24%) Middleware
8 5 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.24%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.99%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.11%) Management Information System
2 40 (9.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 22 (5.46%) Security Posture
4 20 (4.96%) PKI
5 18 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.47%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.98%) Replication
8 10 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.99%) Robotics
11 7 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.49%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.49%) Web3
13 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.60%) Linux
2 72 (17.87%) Windows
3 39 (9.68%) Ubuntu
3 39 (9.68%) VMS
4 33 (8.19%) Kali Linux
5 19 (4.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.74%) Android
7 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (29.53%) Information Security
3 96 (23.82%) DevSecOps
4 92 (22.83%) OWASP
5 80 (19.85%) Penetration Testing
6 79 (19.60%) Security Architecture
7 77 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (18.61%) Computer Science
9 73 (18.11%) Cloud Security
10 72 (17.87%) CI/CD
11 58 (14.39%) Agile
12 55 (13.65%) Security Testing
13 52 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
14 51 (12.66%) Secure Coding
15 46 (11.41%) Identity Management
16 45 (11.17%) DevOps
16 45 (11.17%) SIEM
17 42 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
17 42 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
17 42 (10.42%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.67%) SQL
2 32 (7.94%) Python
3 26 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.96%) Java
5 19 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.72%) C#
7 9 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.99%) R
9 7 (1.74%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.49%) C
10 6 (1.49%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.24%) Scala
12 3 (0.74%) Bash
12 3 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 112 (27.79%) CISSP
2 110 (27.30%) Degree
3 68 (16.87%) CISM
4 56 (13.90%) Security Cleared
5 54 (13.40%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (12.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 48 (11.91%) Azure Certification
8 48 (11.91%) CCSP
9 46 (11.41%) AWS Certification
10 45 (11.17%) DV Cleared
11 33 (8.19%) CCSK
12 14 (3.47%) PCI QSA
13 13 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (3.23%) OSCP
14 12 (2.98%) GIAC
15 11 (2.73%) SANS
15 11 (2.73%) SC Cleared
16 10 (2.48%) CISA
16 10 (2.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (18.86%) NIST
2 34 (8.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (6.20%) GRC
4 24 (5.96%) PCI DSS
5 17 (4.22%) GDPR
6 13 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.23%) NIST 800
8 8 (1.99%) NCSC
9 7 (1.74%) COBIT
10 6 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (1.24%) SLA
11 5 (1.24%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.99%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.74%) QA
14 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.50%) ITGC
14 2 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 56 (13.90%) Docker
3 13 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.98%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 56 (13.90%) Terraform
3 47 (11.66%) Ansible
4 44 (10.92%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.23%) Nmap
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.74%) Nessus
7 6 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (1.24%) Kiali
8 5 (1.24%) Suricata
9 4 (0.99%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.74%) QRadar
11 2 (0.50%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.25%) CASB
12 1 (0.25%) WMI
12 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.72%) Splunk
3 14 (3.47%) VMware
4 13 (3.23%) CyberArk
5 11 (2.73%) BeyondTrust
5 11 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.48%) Qualys
7 8 (1.99%) Juniper
8 7 (1.74%) Cisco
9 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.24%) F5
9 5 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.99%) Google
10 4 (0.99%) HP
11 3 (0.74%) IBM
11 3 (0.74%) Oracle
11 3 (0.74%) SAP
11 3 (0.74%) Veracode
12 2 (0.50%) Ruckus Wireless
12 2 (0.50%) Veeam