Application Security Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 199 job postings with the title “Application Security Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is threat modeling, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Application Security Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 199 job postings with the title “Application Security Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Application Security Engineer jobs require?
Across Application Security Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are threat modeling, Application security, SAST, DAST, penetration testing.
+Which cities are hiring the most Application Security Engineer?
As of 2026-05-17, Application Security Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, New York City, Bengaluru, London, Warsaw.
+Is Application Security Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 199 Application Security Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Application Security Engineer postings is threat modeling, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Application Security Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Application Security Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| threat modeling | 138 | 14.6% |
| Application security | 128 | 13.6% |
| SAST | 92 | 9.8% |
| DAST | 85 | 9.0% |
| penetration testing | 69 | 7.3% |
| Python | 64 | 6.8% |
| SCA | 53 | 5.6% |
| CI/CD | 44 | 4.7% |
| incident response | 43 | 4.6% |
| OWASP Top 10 | 42 | 4.5% |
| vulnerability management | 40 | 4.2% |
| AWS | 40 | 4.2% |
| secure coding | 38 | 4.0% |
| CI/CD pipelines | 35 | 3.7% |
| security automation | 32 | 3.4% |
Top metros hiring Application Security Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 12 | 24.0% |
| New York City | 9 | 18.0% |
| Bengaluru | 6 | 12.0% |
| London | 6 | 12.0% |
| Warsaw | 5 | 10.0% |
| Austin | 3 | 6.0% |
| Belgrade | 3 | 6.0% |
| Palo Alto | 3 | 6.0% |
| Prague | 3 | 6.0% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Application Security Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Application Security Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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