The first table below looks at the demand for OWASP skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OWASP over the 3 months to 23 May 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Rank 244 235 232
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -3
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 5 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.070% 0.014% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.019% 0.105%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 5
Average salary £35,000 £49,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5485 5215 4784
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.76% 73.29% 68.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4587 4553 4198
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -3.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £57,500
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West OWASP Salary Trend

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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Manchester - 5 £35,000 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security Management
2 5 (83.33%) Security Management
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) RAD
2 5 (83.33%) ISMS
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (16.67%) Ajax
6 1 (16.67%) C
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) C++

OWASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Teradata DBA
3 2 (33.33%) Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) DBA
3 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security Management
1 5 (83.33%) Security Management
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
1 5 (83.33%) RAD
1 5 (83.33%) ISMS
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 3 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft