Dynamic Application Security Testing Jobs

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 914 1090
Rank change year-on-year +72 +176 -212
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 42 61 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.061% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.064% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 115
10th Percentile £57,750 £75,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £91,991 £101,875 £88,750
90th Percentile £94,546 £122,500 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £81,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -26.15% +30.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Dynamic 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in the UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Top 10 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +68 42 £65,000 -25.71% 26
UK excluding London +1 31 £60,000 -26.15% 15
Work from Home +92 21 £60,000 -29.41% 9
London +83 10 £87,610 +0.13% 15
West Midlands +20 10 £60,000 -27.27%
South East +15 10 - - 7
Midlands 0 10 £60,000 -27.27%
South West - 8 £65,000 - 3
North of England +31 3 £57,500 -28.13% 3
North West +1 3 £57,500 -39.47% 1

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) Azure
2 24 (57.14%) AWS
3 19 (45.24%) SaaS
4 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (23.81%) GitHub
5 10 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (21.43%) IaaS
6 9 (21.43%) PaaS
7 7 (16.67%) Serverless
8 5 (11.90%) GCP
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.76%) npm
10 2 (4.76%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) LAN
2 2 (4.76%) WAN
2 2 (4.76%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 6 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Finance
5 4 (9.52%) Retail
6 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
1 11 (26.19%) Security Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (4.76%) Information Specialist
6 1 (2.38%) Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Applications Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) .NET
2 13 (30.95%) React
3 9 (21.43%) ARM Templates
3 9 (21.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 4 (9.52%) OAuth
4 4 (9.52%) OpenID
5 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (7.14%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.76%) SAML
7 1 (2.38%) HTML
7 1 (2.38%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Onboarding
2 12 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 12 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 9 (21.43%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) CentOS
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Solaris
1 4 (9.52%) Ubuntu
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
1 4 (9.52%) Windows
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) OWASP
3 16 (38.10%) DevSecOps
4 15 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (33.33%) DevOps
5 14 (33.33%) SDLC
6 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
9 10 (23.81%) Business Strategy
9 10 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (23.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
9 10 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
9 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 10 (23.81%) Time Management
10 9 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
10 9 (21.43%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) C#
2 12 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) C++
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) CISSP
3 6 (14.29%) OSCP
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.52%) CEH
5 4 (9.52%) CISM
5 4 (9.52%) GSEC
6 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.76%) Degree
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) NCSC
2 8 (19.05%) NIST
3 7 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Terraform
2 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.81%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.38%) Nmap
4 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Qualys
1 4 (9.52%) Splunk