Static Application Security Testing Jobs

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 823 914 1081
Rank change year-on-year +91 +167 -204
Permanent jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 61 61 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.061% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.064% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 42 39 125
10th Percentile £55,125 £79,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £113,347 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £122,500 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £82,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +32.00% -15.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Static Application Security Testing in the UK

Static Application Security Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Static Application Security Testing in the UK

Static Application Security Testing
Top 11 Job Locations

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 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 +83 59 £60,000 -31.43% 29
UK excluding London +21 47 £60,000 -27.27% 17
Work from Home +101 31 £60,000 -29.41% 14
West Midlands +23 13 £60,000 -27.27% 2
Midlands +3 13 £60,000 -27.27% 2
London +81 12 £87,610 -1.28% 15
North of England +42 12 £60,000 -25.00% 4
South East +17 12 £65,000 -23.53% 6
North West +10 12 £60,000 -36.84% 2
South West - 8 £65,000 - 3
Wales - 2 - - 1

Static 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (63.93%) Azure
2 28 (45.90%) AWS
3 22 (36.07%) SaaS
4 13 (21.31%) GitHub
5 11 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (14.75%) IaaS
6 9 (14.75%) PaaS
6 9 (14.75%) Serverless
7 7 (11.48%) GCP
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.92%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (3.28%) npm
11 2 (3.28%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) VPN
3 2 (3.28%) HTTP
3 2 (3.28%) LAN
3 2 (3.28%) WAN
3 2 (3.28%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) SonarQube
2 8 (13.11%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.28%) Snyk
5 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
General
1 26 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (14.75%) Retail
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.48%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (8.20%) Banking
6 5 (8.20%) Finance
7 3 (4.92%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Architect
1 11 (18.03%) Security Architect
1 11 (18.03%) Vulnerability Manager
2 7 (11.48%) IT Manager
2 7 (11.48%) Security Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Security Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Developer
4 5 (8.20%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Senior
6 3 (4.92%) .NET Developer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Vulnerability Management Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Information Security Specialist
7 2 (3.28%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.59%) .NET
1 15 (24.59%) React
2 9 (14.75%) ARM Templates
2 9 (14.75%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (8.20%) Node.js
4 4 (6.56%) Kafka
4 4 (6.56%) OAuth
4 4 (6.56%) OpenID
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) Django
6 2 (3.28%) Express.js
6 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.28%) SAML
7 1 (1.64%) HTML
7 1 (1.64%) Jest
7 1 (1.64%) Loki
7 1 (1.64%) Next.js
7 1 (1.64%) Playwright
7 1 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Onboarding
1 13 (21.31%) Security Posture
2 12 (19.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (14.75%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) CentOS
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Solaris
1 4 (6.56%) Ubuntu
1 4 (6.56%) Unix
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
1 4 (6.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 22 (36.07%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (32.79%) OWASP
4 20 (32.79%) Penetration Testing
5 19 (31.15%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
6 18 (29.51%) DevSecOps
7 17 (27.87%) DevOps
8 15 (24.59%) Containerisation
8 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (22.95%) SDLC
10 13 (21.31%) Patch Management
11 12 (19.67%) SIEM
12 11 (18.03%) Application Security
12 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (18.03%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 10 (16.39%) Business Strategy
13 10 (16.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) C#
2 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.92%) SQL
3 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.28%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) C++
5 1 (1.64%) Go
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.64%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) CISSP
3 6 (9.84%) OSCP
4 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.56%) CEH
5 4 (6.56%) CISM
5 4 (6.56%) GSEC
6 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.28%) Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) NCSC
2 8 (13.11%) NIST
3 7 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (24.59%) Terraform
3 10 (16.39%) Ansible
4 5 (8.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.64%) Nmap
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Splunk
3 4 (6.56%) Qualys