AppSec: market
An AppSec Engineer owns application security: threat modeling, code and architecture reviews, scanner setup, triaging vulnerabilities with developers and teaching teams secure development. We currently track 843 open positions for this role, 794 of them fresh. It takes development experience in at least one language, OWASP Top 10 and common vulnerabilities, SAST/DAST/SCA, threat modeling and explaining risk to developers. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and DevSecOps appear most often. 48% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the AppSec Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The AppSec market currently has 843 open roles, 794 of them freshly observed. Median salary $11,666/mo.
48% of AppSec Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 99 of 843 jobs; remote share from 754 with a stated format; 794 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many AppSec postings appeared each week since May 11, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 116
New sources connected: May 18 +4 · May 25 +4 · Jun 1 +3 · Jun 8 +3 · Jun 15 +1 · Jun 22 +7 · Jun 29 +7 · Jul 6 +10 · Jul 13 +11 · Jul 20 +11 · Jul 27 +5 · Aug 3 +3 · Aug 10 +4 · Aug 24 +1 · Aug 31 +2 · Sep 7 +6 · Sep 14 +1 · Sep 21 +4 · Sep 28 +3 · Oct 5 +6 · Oct 12 +5 · Oct 19 +6
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of AppSec postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of AppSec postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on Aug 10: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of AppSec postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: AppSec
| Open demand | 843 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: AppSec
One in ten earns under $5,163, one in ten over $20,179. Half the market falls between $5,900 and $14,838. Sample: 99.
The range histogram for AppSec Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: AppSec
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 267 |
| PL | 77 |
| GB | 58 |
| IN | 39 |
| DE | 31 |
| CA | 31 |
| RU | 24 |
| SG | 17 |
| PT | 15 |
| IL | 13 |
The top country for AppSec Engineer demand is the US (267 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In AppSec Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, AWS, Kubernetes and DevSecOps.
Demand by grade: AppSec
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 313 |
| principal | 129 |
| lead | 70 |
| middle | 32 |
| junior | 20 |
Senior-and-above is about 91% of 564 AppSec Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: AppSec
Demand is spread across 447 employers. The largest accounts for 11.8%, the top ten for 21.7%; the remaining 78.3% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 11.8% |
| top-3 | 14.8% |
| top-10 | 21.7% |
| long tail | 78.3% |
AppSec Engineer openings come from 447 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 64 sources; the largest accounts for 22.3% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
AppSec Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: AppSec
- Senior AppSec-инженер · RU
- Expert Application Security Specialist (IAM&SailPoint IIQ) · PL
- IAM Specialist / Application Security Specialist · PL
- Cybersecurity Consultant (AppSec, VAPT & DevSecOps) · SG
- Application Security Manager (Product & AI Security) (Poznań - hybrid) · PL · $4,688
- Staff Application Security Engineer (ServiceNow Instance Security) · US · $20,179
- Principal Product Security Engineer · GB
- Security Consultant (m/w/d) DevSecOps / Application Security · DE
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-27
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the AppSec Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an AppSec Engineer do?
An AppSec Engineer owns application security: threat modeling, code and architecture reviews, scanner setup, triaging vulnerabilities with developers and teaching teams secure development.
Which skills do AppSec Engineer postings require?
It takes development experience in at least one language, OWASP Top 10 and common vulnerabilities, SAST/DAST/SCA, threat modeling and explaining risk to developers. In the current slice, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and DevSecOps appear in requirements most often.
Does an AppSec engineer need to code?
Yes: without reading code neither reviews nor meaningful scanner triage are possible. Many people come to AppSec from development.
How remote-friendly are AppSec Engineer jobs?
48% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 843 open positions.
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