The first table below looks at the demand for OWASP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Rank 204 211 214
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 6 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.114% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.152% 0.072% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 4
Average salary £72,500 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3956 4188 4190
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.40% 75.41% 68.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3462 3563 3539
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South 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
Gloucestershire - 6 £72,500 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 (85.71%) CISSP
1 6 (85.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 6 (85.71%) Risk Management
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) TOGAF
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (85.71%) Technical Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) PCI DSS
1 6 (85.71%) CISM
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Flot
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) MVVM
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) Backbone.js
2 1 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (14.29%) D3.js
2 1 (14.29%) QUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (14.29%) Sass
2 1 (14.29%) LESS
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) CakePHP

OWASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 1 (14.29%) Flot
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) Backbone.js
1 1 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
1 1 (14.29%) Highcharts JS
1 1 (14.29%) Sass
1 1 (14.29%) LESS
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
1 1 (14.29%) CakePHP
1 1 (14.29%) Grails
1 1 (14.29%) Django
1 1 (14.29%) YUI
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) QUnit
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
1 6 (85.71%) Security Architect
1 6 (85.71%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Risk Management
1 6 (85.71%) TOGAF
1 6 (85.71%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) MVVM
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CISSP
1 6 (85.71%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (85.71%) PCI DSS