Static Application Security Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 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 720 717 771
Rank change year-on-year -3 +54 -99
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 48 19 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.034% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.035% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 32 7 63
10th Percentile £49,375 £65,250 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £78,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £86,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,250 £93,500 £109,000
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
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Static Application Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Static Application Security Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Static Application Security Testing within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands -2 14 £60,000 -27.27% 2
West Midlands -3 14 £60,000 -27.27% 2
North of England +38 12 £60,000 -25.00% 2
North West +6 12 £60,000 -17.24% 2
South East -1 12 £65,000 -23.53%
South West - 8 £65,000 - 2
Wales - 2 - -
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static Application Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (64.58%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 21 (43.75%) SaaS
4 13 (27.08%) GitHub
5 11 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (20.83%) IaaS
6 10 (20.83%) PaaS
7 9 (18.75%) Serverless
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.17%) GCP
9 2 (4.17%) SonarCloud
10 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) LAN
2 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 2 (4.17%) WAN
2 2 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (10.42%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) Snyk
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
General
1 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (16.67%) Retail
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Architect
1 10 (20.83%) Security Architect
1 10 (20.83%) Vulnerability Manager
2 7 (14.58%) IT Manager
3 6 (12.50%) Security Specialist
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Information Security Specialist
7 2 (4.17%) Information Specialist
7 2 (4.17%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) React
2 13 (27.08%) .NET
3 10 (20.83%) ARM Templates
3 10 (20.83%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (10.42%) Node.js
5 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 2 (4.17%) Django
6 2 (4.17%) Express.js
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth
6 2 (4.17%) OpenID
6 2 (4.17%) SAML
7 1 (2.08%) Jest
7 1 (2.08%) Next.js
7 1 (2.08%) Playwright
7 1 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Onboarding
2 13 (27.08%) Security Posture
3 12 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 10 (20.83%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 21 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (41.67%) Agile
4 18 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 18 (37.50%) OWASP
5 16 (33.33%) DevOps
6 15 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 14 (29.17%) Penetration Testing
8 13 (27.08%) Vulnerability Management
9 12 (25.00%) Patch Management
9 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
10 11 (22.92%) SDLC
10 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
10 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
11 10 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (20.83%) Project Management
11 10 (20.83%) Release Management
11 10 (20.83%) Technical Architecture
11 10 (20.83%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) C#
2 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.25%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) OSCP
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.33%) CEH
3 4 (8.33%) CISSP
3 4 (8.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) NCSC
2 4 (8.33%) NIST
3 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (20.83%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Splunk