Application Security Jobs

Application Security (AppSec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 515 464 550
Rank change year-on-year -51 +86 -53
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 450 591 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.65% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 301 361 526
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,000 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.55% +5.00% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in the UK

Application Security
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Application Security in the UK

Application Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Security in the UK

Application Security
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the UK 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
England -46 403 £75,000 -6.25% 101
London +52 228 £77,421 -11.52% 46
Work from Home +12 200 £70,000 -6.67% 48
UK excluding London -83 186 £65,000 +12.55% 53
North of England +21 69 £61,206 -2.07% 19
South East -20 58 £71,250 +29.55% 15
North West -15 40 £57,500 -11.54% 14
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
Scotland -57 17 £52,500 +16.99% 2
South West -22 15 £75,000 -25.00% 5
North East -4 9 £62,500 +31.58%
Wales +10 2 £65,000 +74.98%
East Midlands -20 2 £44,500 -19.09% 1

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.22%) Drupal
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (35.56%) Azure
2 102 (22.67%) AWS
3 58 (12.89%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (5.11%) GCP
6 21 (4.67%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.44%) SaaS
8 16 (3.56%) Azure AKS
9 15 (3.33%) PaaS
10 14 (3.11%) IaaS
11 13 (2.89%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.22%) Serverless
14 7 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.33%) Azure Service Fabric
16 4 (0.89%) Azure App Service
16 4 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 3 (0.67%) AWS CodePipeline
17 3 (0.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 102 (22.67%) Firewall
2 84 (18.67%) WAN
3 65 (14.44%) Network Security
4 57 (12.67%) VPN
5 49 (10.89%) LAN
6 46 (10.22%) Internet
7 35 (7.78%) SD-WAN
8 19 (4.22%) Wireless
9 8 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.78%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.78%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.11%) Wireless Security
11 4 (0.89%) BGP
11 4 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.89%) MPLS
11 4 (0.89%) OSPF
11 4 (0.89%) tcpdump
11 4 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.78%) CockroachDB
5 7 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.89%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.67%) Looker
8 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.44%) MySQL
9 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (9.11%) Burp Suite
2 36 (8.00%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.00%) Git
4 9 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.78%) Jaeger
6 5 (1.11%) Selenium
6 5 (1.11%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.67%) Moq
7 3 (0.67%) Postman
7 3 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.44%) JIRA
8 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.22%) Gradle
9 1 (0.22%) Grunt
9 1 (0.22%) gulp
9 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 144 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 101 (22.44%) Finance
3 62 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.22%) Retail
5 35 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.33%) Law
7 19 (4.22%) Telecoms
8 18 (4.00%) Banking
8 18 (4.00%) Marketing
9 15 (3.33%) Legal
9 15 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.67%) Health Technology
11 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.00%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Electronics
16 2 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 153 (34.00%) Architect
2 126 (28.00%) Senior
3 93 (20.67%) Security Architect
4 50 (11.11%) Lead
5 48 (10.67%) Penetration Tester
6 47 (10.44%) Tester
7 43 (9.56%) Lead Architect
7 43 (9.56%) Security Engineer
8 41 (9.11%) Analyst
9 40 (8.89%) Security Analyst
10 32 (7.11%) Lead Security Architect
11 25 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (5.33%) Consultant
12 24 (5.33%) Senior Security Analyst
13 22 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (4.67%) Developer
14 21 (4.67%) Infrastructure Architect
15 20 (4.44%) Senior Architect
16 19 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 16 (3.56%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.11%) OAuth
2 17 (3.78%) REST
2 17 (3.78%) Web Services
3 15 (3.33%) .NET
4 14 (3.11%) SAML
5 11 (2.44%) .NET Framework
5 11 (2.44%) HTML
5 11 (2.44%) Middleware
5 11 (2.44%) SailPoint
6 10 (2.22%) CSS
6 10 (2.22%) React
6 10 (2.22%) RESTful
7 9 (2.00%) Entity Framework
7 9 (2.00%) Kafka
7 9 (2.00%) Vue
8 8 (1.78%) ASP.NET
8 8 (1.78%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.78%) Management Information System
2 45 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 27 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 21 (4.67%) PKI
5 18 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.78%) Public Cloud
7 14 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 14 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.67%) Replication
9 11 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.22%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.00%) Robotics
12 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (1.33%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.33%) Web3
15 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 88 (19.56%) Linux
2 73 (16.22%) Windows
3 39 (8.67%) Ubuntu
3 39 (8.67%) VMS
4 33 (7.33%) Kali Linux
5 19 (4.22%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.00%) Android
7 7 (1.56%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Unix
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (37.56%) Cybersecurity
2 137 (30.44%) Information Security
3 104 (23.11%) DevSecOps
3 104 (23.11%) OWASP
4 94 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 86 (19.11%) Security Architecture
7 83 (18.44%) Computer Science
8 79 (17.56%) CI/CD
8 79 (17.56%) Cloud Security
9 67 (14.89%) Agile
10 65 (14.44%) Security Testing
11 60 (13.33%) DevOps
12 59 (13.11%) Vulnerability Management
13 57 (12.67%) Secure Coding
14 54 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
15 52 (11.56%) SIEM
16 46 (10.22%) Identity Management
16 46 (10.22%) Security Operations
16 46 (10.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.78%) SQL
2 37 (8.22%) Python
3 29 (6.44%) Java
4 27 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.78%) PowerShell
6 20 (4.44%) C#
7 9 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.78%) R
9 7 (1.56%) C
9 7 (1.56%) Go
9 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.11%) Scala
11 4 (0.89%) Bash
12 3 (0.67%) C++
13 2 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.44%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Groovy
14 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (27.56%) CISSP
2 122 (27.11%) Degree
3 80 (17.78%) CISM
4 61 (13.56%) Security Cleared
5 59 (13.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (10.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 49 (10.89%) Azure Certification
8 48 (10.67%) CCSP
9 46 (10.22%) AWS Certification
10 45 (10.00%) DV Cleared
11 33 (7.33%) CCSK
12 19 (4.22%) CREST Certified
13 18 (4.00%) GIAC
13 18 (4.00%) OSCP
14 17 (3.78%) SANS
15 16 (3.56%) SC Cleared
16 14 (3.11%) CHECK Team Member
16 14 (3.11%) PCI QSA
17 13 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (20.22%) NIST
2 39 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.56%) GRC
4 24 (5.33%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.78%) GDPR
6 13 (2.89%) COBIT
6 13 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.44%) NCSC
8 10 (2.22%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.00%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (1.33%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (1.11%) QA
11 5 (1.11%) SLA
12 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.89%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.89%) WCAG
13 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 68 (15.11%) Active Directory
2 60 (13.33%) Docker
3 13 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.11%) Terraform
3 51 (11.33%) Ansible
4 45 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 9 (2.00%) Nmap
7 8 (1.78%) Kiali
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.56%) Nessus
9 5 (1.11%) Suricata
10 4 (0.89%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.67%) QRadar
12 1 (0.22%) CASB
12 1 (0.22%) WMI
12 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.00%) Splunk
3 14 (3.11%) VMware
4 13 (2.89%) CyberArk
5 11 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
5 11 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.22%) Qualys
7 8 (1.78%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.78%) Juniper
8 7 (1.56%) Cisco
9 5 (1.11%) F5
9 5 (1.11%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.89%) Google
10 4 (0.89%) HP
10 4 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.67%) IBM
11 3 (0.67%) Oracle
11 3 (0.67%) SAP
11 3 (0.67%) Veracode
12 2 (0.44%) Aruba