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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 334 481
Rank change year-on-year +14 +147 -78
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 224 284 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.90% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.95% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 139 184 234
10th Percentile £56,165 £57,875 £51,975
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £63,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £98,750 £102,813 £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 21,954 29,884 72,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.57% 95.13% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 21,954 34,489
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 9 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 9 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 +71 44 £100,000 +25.00% 6
South London -4 1 £61,050 -
West London -15 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 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) Apache
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Drupal
2 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.11%) Azure
2 32 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (10.27%) AWS
4 13 (5.80%) Azure AKS
5 12 (5.36%) GCP
6 9 (4.02%) SaaS
7 8 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.79%) IaaS
10 4 (1.79%) PaaS
11 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.34%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (35.71%) Firewall
2 49 (21.88%) WAN
3 48 (21.43%) VPN
4 45 (20.09%) LAN
5 39 (17.41%) Internet
6 35 (15.63%) Network Security
7 12 (5.36%) Wireless
8 4 (1.79%) BGP
8 4 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (1.79%) MPLS
8 4 (1.79%) OSPF
8 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.79%) tcpdump
8 4 (1.79%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.79%) VXLAN
8 4 (1.79%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) CockroachDB
2 3 (1.34%) Looker
2 3 (1.34%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.45%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (16.96%) Burp Suite
2 36 (16.07%) Metasploit
3 9 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.23%) Jaeger
4 5 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 98 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 69 (30.80%) Finance
3 42 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.30%) Retail
5 14 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.91%) Banking
7 10 (4.46%) Health Technology
7 10 (4.46%) Law
7 10 (4.46%) Legal
8 9 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.02%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.57%) Tech for Good
10 7 (3.13%) Marketing
10 7 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Police
13 1 (0.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 70 (31.25%) Architect
2 68 (30.36%) Senior
3 35 (15.63%) Penetration Tester
3 35 (15.63%) Tester
4 31 (13.84%) Security Architect
5 27 (12.05%) Analyst
6 26 (11.61%) Security Analyst
7 24 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (10.27%) Senior Security Analyst
9 22 (9.82%) Security Engineer
10 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure Architect
11 18 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (8.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (6.70%) CISSP Analyst
12 15 (6.70%) IT Analyst
12 15 (6.70%) IT Security Analyst
12 15 (6.70%) Senior IT Security Analyst
13 13 (5.80%) IT Architect
13 13 (5.80%) IT Security Architect
14 9 (4.02%) Fraud Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.02%) OAuth
1 9 (4.02%) SailPoint
2 8 (3.57%) REST
3 7 (3.13%) SAML
4 6 (2.68%) Kafka
5 5 (2.23%) Middleware
5 5 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.23%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.23%) Web Services
6 4 (1.79%) RESTful
6 4 (1.79%) web3js
7 3 (1.34%) JSON
7 3 (1.34%) XML
8 2 (0.89%) HTML
8 2 (0.89%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.89%) OpenID
8 2 (0.89%) React
9 1 (0.45%) .NET
9 1 (0.45%) CSS
9 1 (0.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.18%) Management Information System
2 15 (6.70%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (4.46%) PKI
5 8 (3.57%) Robotics
5 8 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.79%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.79%) Web3
8 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 75 (33.48%) Linux
2 51 (22.77%) Windows
3 39 (17.41%) Ubuntu
3 39 (17.41%) VMS
4 28 (12.50%) Kali Linux
5 7 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.18%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (35.27%) DevSecOps
3 65 (29.02%) Information Security
4 59 (26.34%) Cloud Security
5 54 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (23.21%) Agile
7 42 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
8 41 (18.30%) Security Architecture
9 40 (17.86%) Security Testing
10 39 (17.41%) Collaborative Culture
11 38 (16.96%) Computer Science
12 37 (16.52%) Actionable Insight
13 33 (14.73%) Critical Thinking
14 32 (14.29%) CI/CD
15 31 (13.84%) Malware Analysis
16 30 (13.39%) Reverse Engineering
17 29 (12.95%) Red Team
17 29 (12.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 28 (12.50%) OWASP
18 28 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.04%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.25%) SQL
3 12 (5.36%) Python
4 8 (3.57%) Java
4 8 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.34%) Bash
5 3 (1.34%) C++
5 3 (1.34%) R
6 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) Go
7 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (31.25%) Degree
2 54 (24.11%) CISSP
3 45 (20.09%) Security Cleared
4 40 (17.86%) DV Cleared
5 34 (15.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (9.38%) CISM
7 20 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (8.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (8.04%) CCSP
10 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
11 9 (4.02%) Numerate Degree
12 8 (3.57%) CREST Certified
12 8 (3.57%) OSCP
13 7 (3.13%) CHECK Team Leader
13 7 (3.13%) CHECK Team Member
13 7 (3.13%) Cyber Scheme
13 7 (3.13%) PMI Certification
13 7 (3.13%) PMP
14 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.68%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.38%) NIST
2 14 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.91%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.13%) GRC
5 6 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.23%) SLA
7 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.79%) GDPR
8 3 (1.34%) COBIT
8 3 (1.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.89%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.45%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.45%) COSO
10 1 (0.45%) PSD2
10 1 (0.45%) QA
10 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.80%) Docker
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (20.98%) Terraform
2 46 (20.54%) Ansible
3 22 (9.82%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.02%) Nmap
5 8 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.23%) Kiali
8 3 (1.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.45%) CASB
9 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.91%) CyberArk
3 9 (4.02%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (4.02%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.02%) Splunk
4 5 (2.23%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.23%) F5
5 4 (1.79%) Google
5 4 (1.79%) Qualys
6 3 (1.34%) IBM
7 2 (0.89%) Alibaba
7 2 (0.89%) VMware
8 1 (0.45%) CA
8 1 (0.45%) Citrix
8 1 (0.45%) Juniper
8 1 (0.45%) McAfee
8 1 (0.45%) NetApp
8 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud