Static Application Security Testing Jobs in England

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 845 1035
Rank change year-on-year +62 +190 -192
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 60 63 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.075% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.078% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 43 41 106
10th Percentile £55,250 £78,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £104,193 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £122,500 £110,000
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,213 80,273 136,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.42% 95.47% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 55,117 48,949 73,905
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
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 £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Static Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in England

Static Application Security Testing
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Midlands +6 14 £60,000 -27.27% 2
Midlands -8 14 £60,000 -27.27% 2
London +71 12 £87,610 -2.66% 10
North of England +31 12 £60,000 -25.00% 2
South East +21 12 £65,000 -23.53%
North West -2 12 £60,000 -17.24% 2
South West - 8 £65,000 - 2
Static Application Security Testing
UK

Static Application Security Testing
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 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (66.67%) Azure
2 29 (48.33%) AWS
3 23 (38.33%) SaaS
4 14 (23.33%) GitHub
5 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (16.67%) IaaS
6 10 (16.67%) PaaS
7 9 (15.00%) Serverless
8 7 (11.67%) GCP
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
12 2 (3.33%) npm
12 2 (3.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (3.33%) LAN
3 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (13.33%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.33%) Snyk
5 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
General
1 26 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Retail
5 5 (8.33%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Finance
5 5 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Architect
1 11 (18.33%) Security Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Vulnerability Manager
3 7 (11.67%) IT Manager
3 7 (11.67%) Security Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Security Specialist
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 5 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Information Security Specialist
8 2 (3.33%) Information Specialist
9 1 (1.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) .NET
1 15 (25.00%) React
2 10 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 10 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (8.33%) Node.js
4 4 (6.67%) Kafka
4 4 (6.67%) OAuth
4 4 (6.67%) OpenID
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) Django
6 2 (3.33%) Express.js
6 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.33%) SAML
7 1 (1.67%) HTML
7 1 (1.67%) Jest
7 1 (1.67%) Loki
7 1 (1.67%) Next.js
7 1 (1.67%) Playwright
7 1 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Onboarding
2 13 (21.67%) Security Posture
3 12 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 10 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) CentOS
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
1 4 (6.67%) Solaris
1 4 (6.67%) Ubuntu
1 4 (6.67%) Unix
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
1 4 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (71.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 22 (36.67%) Agile
3 21 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (33.33%) OWASP
5 19 (31.67%) DevSecOps
6 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (30.00%) DevOps
6 18 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
7 17 (28.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
9 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (23.33%) SDLC
11 12 (20.00%) SIEM
12 11 (18.33%) Application Security
12 11 (18.33%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (18.33%) Patch Management
12 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
12 11 (18.33%) Test Automation
13 10 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) C#
2 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) C++
5 1 (1.67%) Go
5 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) Python
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) CISSP
3 6 (10.00%) OSCP
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.67%) CEH
5 4 (6.67%) CISM
5 4 (6.67%) GSEC
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NCSC
2 8 (13.33%) NIST
3 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (26.67%) Terraform
3 11 (18.33%) Ansible
4 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.67%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.67%) Nmap
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Splunk
3 4 (6.67%) Qualys