Dynamic Application Security Testing Jobs in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 837 1058
Rank change year-on-year +19 +221 -205
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 45 57 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.069% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.073% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 95
10th Percentile £58,875 £78,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +9.38% +8.47%
75th Percentile £91,991 £102,923 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,125 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £87,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -27.14% +12.90% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Dynamic Application Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
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%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in England

Dynamic 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 Dynamic Application Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 -2 11 £60,000 -27.27%
South East -24 11 £100,000 +17.65%
Midlands -29 11 £60,000 -27.27%
London +69 10 £87,610 -1.28% 7
South West - 9 £65,000 - 2
North of England +8 3 £57,500 -28.13%
North West -21 3 £57,500 -39.47%
Dynamic Application Security Testing
UK

Dynamic 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:

Cloud Services
1 34 (75.56%) Azure
2 26 (57.78%) AWS
3 20 (44.44%) SaaS
4 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (24.44%) GitHub
5 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (22.22%) IaaS
6 10 (22.22%) PaaS
7 7 (15.56%) Serverless
8 5 (11.11%) GCP
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (4.44%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.44%) npm
11 2 (4.44%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) HTTP
2 2 (4.44%) LAN
2 2 (4.44%) WAN
2 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 6 (13.33%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (8.89%) Retail
6 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
1 11 (24.44%) Security Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Security Specialist
3 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Lead
3 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (4.44%) Information Specialist
6 1 (2.22%) Applications Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Security Analyst
6 1 (2.22%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) .NET
2 13 (28.89%) React
3 10 (22.22%) ARM Templates
3 10 (22.22%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (11.11%) OAuth
4 5 (11.11%) OpenID
5 4 (8.89%) Kafka
6 3 (6.67%) Node.js
6 3 (6.67%) RESTful
6 3 (6.67%) SAML
7 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.22%) HTML
8 1 (2.22%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Onboarding
2 13 (28.89%) Security Posture
3 12 (26.67%) Product Ownership
4 10 (22.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (8.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) CentOS
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Solaris
1 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
1 4 (8.89%) Unix
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 22 (48.89%) OWASP
3 21 (46.67%) Agile
4 18 (40.00%) DevSecOps
5 15 (33.33%) DevOps
5 15 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 14 (31.11%) SDLC
7 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
7 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 12 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (24.44%) Continuous Delivery
9 11 (24.44%) Penetration Testing
9 11 (24.44%) Project Management
9 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
9 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
10 10 (22.22%) Business Strategy
10 10 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 10 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) C#
2 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.44%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Go
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) CISSP
3 6 (13.33%) OSCP
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) CEH
5 4 (8.89%) CISM
5 4 (8.89%) GSEC
6 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.44%) Degree
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) NCSC
2 8 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (17.78%) NIST
3 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (6.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Terraform
2 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (24.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.22%) Nmap
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Qualys
1 4 (8.89%) Splunk
2 1 (2.22%) Salesforce