The first table below looks at the demand for OWASP skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OWASP over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Rank 569 592 628
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +36
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 38 53 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.086% 0.100% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.108% 0.129% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 29 33 21
Average salary £45,000 £70,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.71% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £76,500 £80,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,600 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-18.80% +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
35074 41033 45706
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 79.25% 77.13% 76.32%
Number of salaries quoted 29071 35399 38217
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OWASP
England

OWASP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OWASP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London OWASP Jobs Demand Trend

OWASP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OWASP across the London region.

London OWASP Salary Trend

OWASP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OWASP across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London OWASP Salary Histogram

OWASP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -8 5 £92,500 +15.62%
OWASP
England

OWASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing OWASP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OWASP.

1 38 (55.88%) Information Security
2 32 (47.06%) Finance
3 31 (45.59%) .NET
4 27 (39.71%) ASP.NET
5 26 (38.24%) SQL Server
6 25 (36.76%) C#
6 25 (36.76%) CSS
7 24 (35.29%) JavaScript
8 22 (32.35%) MVC
8 22 (32.35%) Security Management
9 20 (29.41%) CISSP
9 20 (29.41%) Security Architecture
10 18 (26.47%) HTML
11 17 (25.00%) QA
11 17 (25.00%) jQuery
12 16 (23.53%) WCF
12 16 (23.53%) CISA
12 16 (23.53%) CISM
12 16 (23.53%) Scrum
13 15 (22.06%) Java
13 15 (22.06%) SQL
13 15 (22.06%) CEH
13 15 (22.06%) Penetration Testing
14 13 (19.12%) Network Security
15 12 (17.65%) SSCP
15 12 (17.65%) CRISC
15 12 (17.65%) CISMP
16 11 (16.18%) HTML5
17 10 (14.71%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (14.71%) ISMS

OWASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing OWASP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OWASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (45.59%) .NET
2 27 (39.71%) ASP.NET
3 25 (36.76%) CSS
4 18 (26.47%) HTML
5 17 (25.00%) jQuery
6 16 (23.53%) WCF
7 11 (16.18%) HTML5
8 10 (14.71%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (14.71%) RESTful
9 9 (13.24%) Ajax
9 9 (13.24%) .NET Framework
10 8 (11.76%) Web Services
11 7 (10.29%) REST
12 6 (8.824%) Spring
12 6 (8.824%) Node.js
12 6 (8.824%) KnockoutJS
13 5 (7.353%) JMS
13 5 (7.353%) XML
14 4 (5.882%) WebSphere
14 4 (5.882%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.824%) IIS
2 5 (7.353%) Confluence
3 4 (5.882%) ESB
3 4 (5.882%) Drupal
3 4 (5.882%) nginx
3 4 (5.882%) CMS
3 4 (5.882%) Apache
4 3 (4.412%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.941%) Jetty
5 2 (2.941%) SAP Portal
5 2 (2.941%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.353%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.471%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (1.471%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) Network Security
2 7 (10.29%) NFC
3 4 (5.882%) HTTPS
4 3 (4.412%) Extranet
4 3 (4.412%) Intranet
4 3 (4.412%) Firewall
4 3 (4.412%) AMQP
5 2 (2.941%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.941%) SSH
5 2 (2.941%) VoIP
5 2 (2.941%) LDAP
6 1 (1.471%) HTTP
6 1 (1.471%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.471%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.882%) Redis
3 4 (5.882%) MySQL
3 4 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (4.412%) Hypertable
4 3 (4.412%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.412%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.412%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.412%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.412%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.471%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.471%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.471%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Metasploit
2 5 (7.353%) Eclipse
2 5 (7.353%) Subversion
2 5 (7.353%) JIRA
3 4 (5.882%) Git (software)
4 3 (4.412%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.412%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.941%) PhoneGap
5 2 (2.941%) Xcode
5 2 (2.941%) Ant
5 2 (2.941%) JUnit
6 1 (1.471%) MonkeyTalk
6 1 (1.471%) Maven
General
1 32 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Advertising
3 6 (8.824%) Retail
4 5 (7.353%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.882%) Marketing
6 3 (4.412%) Publishing
6 3 (4.412%) Games
7 2 (2.941%) Legal
7 2 (2.941%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.471%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Developer
2 19 (27.94%) Consultant
2 19 (27.94%) Security Consultant
3 13 (19.12%) Senior Security Consultant
3 13 (19.12%) Senior Consultant
4 12 (17.65%) Information Security Consultant
4 12 (17.65%) Senior Information Security Consultant
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.29%) .NET Developer
6 7 (10.29%) C# Developer
7 6 (8.824%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (8.824%) Architect
7 6 (8.824%) Web Developer
8 5 (7.353%) Administrator
8 5 (7.353%) DBA
8 5 (7.353%) SQL DBA
8 5 (7.353%) Senior Web Developer
8 5 (7.353%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Penetration Test Consultant
9 4 (5.882%) Penetration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
1 4 (5.882%) SaaS
1 4 (5.882%) Heroku
1 4 (5.882%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.882%) N-Tier
1 4 (5.882%) Biometrics
2 3 (4.412%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.412%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.412%) Mathematics
2 3 (4.412%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.941%) SCADA
3 2 (2.941%) Open Source
4 1 (1.471%) W3C
4 1 (1.471%) Cryptography
4 1 (1.471%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.353%) Android
2 4 (5.882%) Ubuntu
2 4 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.882%) Linux
3 2 (2.941%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.941%) Windows
4 1 (1.471%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.88%) Information Security
2 22 (32.35%) MVC
2 22 (32.35%) Security Management
3 20 (29.41%) Security Architecture
4 16 (23.53%) Scrum
5 15 (22.06%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (14.71%) ISMS
6 10 (14.71%) Information Security Management
6 10 (14.71%) RAD
7 9 (13.24%) TDD
8 8 (11.76%) Project Management
9 7 (10.29%) BDD
10 6 (8.824%) Security Testing
10 6 (8.824%) UML
11 5 (7.353%) CRM
11 5 (7.353%) E-Commerce
11 5 (7.353%) Dependency Injection
11 5 (7.353%) Multithreading
11 5 (7.353%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (7.353%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) C#
2 24 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 15 (22.06%) Java
3 15 (22.06%) SQL
4 6 (8.824%) PHP
4 6 (8.824%) C
5 5 (7.353%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.941%) Bash shell
6 2 (2.941%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.941%) C++
6 2 (2.941%) Perl
6 2 (2.941%) ABAP
6 2 (2.941%) Python
7 1 (1.471%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.471%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.471%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) CISSP
2 16 (23.53%) CISA
2 16 (23.53%) CISM
3 15 (22.06%) CEH
4 12 (17.65%) SSCP
4 12 (17.65%) CRISC
4 12 (17.65%) CISMP
5 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.412%) Degree
7 1 (1.471%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (2.941%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.941%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.471%) GCP
3 1 (1.471%) BS25999
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.471%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Nessus
2 8 (11.76%) CORE IMPACT
3 1 (1.471%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.882%) Zend
2 4 (5.882%) SAP
2 4 (5.882%) Facebook
2 4 (5.882%) Twitter
2 4 (5.882%) Rackspace
3 3 (4.412%) Apple
4 2 (2.941%) Endeca
4 2 (2.941%) Google
4 2 (2.941%) hybris
4 2 (2.941%) Telerik
4 2 (2.941%) Oracle
5 1 (1.471%) Citrix
5 1 (1.471%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.471%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.471%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.471%) VMware
5 1 (1.471%) Qualys
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