Application Security Jobs in London

Application Security (AppSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 293 345 493
Rank change year-on-year +52 +148 -104
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 228 297 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.93% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.98% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 142 188 232
10th Percentile £55,868 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £63,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,421 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £99,375 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,759 30,392 71,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.06% 95.23% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 22,244 34,287
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Application Security in London

Application Security
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Application Security in London

Application Security
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the 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
Central London +76 43 £100,000 +21.21% 7
South London -1 1 £61,050 - 1
West London -5 1 £57,500 -37.50%
Application Security
England

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Drupal
2 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.12%) Azure
2 33 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (11.40%) AWS
4 14 (6.14%) Azure AKS
5 12 (5.26%) GCP
6 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.95%) SaaS
7 7 (3.07%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.75%) IaaS
9 4 (1.75%) PaaS
10 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.32%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.44%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (35.96%) Firewall
2 49 (21.49%) WAN
3 48 (21.05%) VPN
4 45 (19.74%) LAN
5 39 (17.11%) Internet
6 37 (16.23%) Network Security
7 12 (5.26%) Wireless
8 4 (1.75%) BGP
8 4 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (1.75%) MPLS
8 4 (1.75%) OSPF
8 4 (1.75%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.75%) tcpdump
8 4 (1.75%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.75%) VXLAN
8 4 (1.75%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) CockroachDB
2 3 (1.32%) Looker
2 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.44%) Power BI
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (16.67%) Burp Suite
2 36 (15.79%) Metasploit
3 9 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.19%) Jaeger
4 5 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 98 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 68 (29.82%) Finance
3 42 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (17.98%) Retail
5 14 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.82%) Banking
6 11 (4.82%) Health Technology
7 10 (4.39%) Law
7 10 (4.39%) Legal
8 9 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.95%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.95%) Tech for Good
9 7 (3.07%) Marketing
9 7 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (30.26%) Architect
1 69 (30.26%) Senior
2 35 (15.35%) Penetration Tester
2 35 (15.35%) Tester
3 30 (13.16%) Security Architect
4 29 (12.72%) Analyst
5 28 (12.28%) Security Analyst
6 25 (10.96%) Security Engineer
7 24 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (10.09%) Senior Security Analyst
9 21 (9.21%) Infrastructure Architect
10 18 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (7.02%) CISSP Analyst
12 15 (6.58%) IT Analyst
12 15 (6.58%) IT Security Analyst
12 15 (6.58%) Senior IT Security Analyst
13 12 (5.26%) IT Architect
13 12 (5.26%) IT Security Architect
14 9 (3.95%) Fraud Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.95%) OAuth
1 9 (3.95%) SailPoint
2 8 (3.51%) REST
3 7 (3.07%) SAML
4 6 (2.63%) Kafka
4 6 (2.63%) web3js
5 5 (2.19%) Middleware
5 5 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.19%) Web Services
6 4 (1.75%) RESTful
7 3 (1.32%) JSON
7 3 (1.32%) XML
8 2 (0.88%) HTML
8 2 (0.88%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.88%) OpenID
8 2 (0.88%) React
9 1 (0.44%) .NET
9 1 (0.44%) CSS
9 1 (0.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.91%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.14%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.26%) PKI
4 11 (4.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (3.51%) Robotics
5 8 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.63%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.63%) Web3
7 5 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 75 (32.89%) Linux
2 51 (22.37%) Windows
3 39 (17.11%) Ubuntu
3 39 (17.11%) VMS
4 28 (12.28%) Kali Linux
5 7 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (41.23%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (35.09%) DevSecOps
3 66 (28.95%) Information Security
4 61 (26.75%) Cloud Security
5 54 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (22.81%) Agile
7 44 (19.30%) Penetration Testing
8 40 (17.54%) Security Architecture
8 40 (17.54%) Security Testing
9 39 (17.11%) Collaborative Culture
9 39 (17.11%) Computer Science
10 37 (16.23%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (14.47%) Critical Thinking
12 32 (14.04%) CI/CD
13 31 (13.60%) Malware Analysis
14 30 (13.16%) Reverse Engineering
14 30 (13.16%) SIEM
15 29 (12.72%) Red Team
15 29 (12.72%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 28 (12.28%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.14%) SQL
3 12 (5.26%) Python
4 9 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (3.51%) Java
6 3 (1.32%) Bash
6 3 (1.32%) C++
6 3 (1.32%) R
7 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.44%) C
8 1 (0.44%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Go
8 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (30.70%) Degree
2 57 (25.00%) CISSP
3 45 (19.74%) Security Cleared
4 40 (17.54%) DV Cleared
5 34 (14.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (10.09%) CISM
7 21 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (8.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 19 (8.33%) CCSP
10 11 (4.82%) Azure Certification
11 9 (3.95%) Numerate Degree
12 8 (3.51%) CEH
12 8 (3.51%) CREST Certified
12 8 (3.51%) OSCP
12 8 (3.51%) PMI Certification
12 8 (3.51%) PMP
13 7 (3.07%) CHECK Team Leader
13 7 (3.07%) CHECK Team Member
13 7 (3.07%) Cyber Scheme
13 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.09%) NIST
2 15 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.82%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.07%) GRC
5 6 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.19%) SLA
7 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.32%) COBIT
8 3 (1.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.88%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.44%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.44%) COSO
10 1 (0.44%) PSD2
10 1 (0.44%) QA
10 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.70%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (21.05%) Terraform
2 46 (20.18%) Ansible
3 23 (10.09%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.95%) Nmap
5 8 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.19%) Kiali
8 3 (1.32%) QRadar
9 1 (0.44%) CASB
9 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.82%) CyberArk
3 9 (3.95%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (3.95%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.95%) Splunk
4 5 (2.19%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.19%) F5
5 4 (1.75%) Google
5 4 (1.75%) Qualys
6 3 (1.32%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Alibaba
7 2 (0.88%) VMware
8 1 (0.44%) CA
8 1 (0.44%) Citrix
8 1 (0.44%) Juniper
8 1 (0.44%) McAfee
8 1 (0.44%) NetApp
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud