OWASP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 587 563
Rank change year-on-year +13 -24 -88
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 190 170 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 108 82 224
10th Percentile £46,854 £39,063 £35,375
25th Percentile £56,809 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £84,919 £92,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,080 £95,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £84,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.16% +30.00% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +28 67 £70,000 -6.67% 14
North of England +40 47 £79,842 +45.17% 6
South West +3 41 £70,000 -34.20% 4
North West +3 32 £61,206 +39.90% 4
East of England +13 19 £65,000 -27.78% 2
Yorkshire +67 11 £79,842 -15.96% 1
West Midlands +24 7 £77,500 +31.91%
Midlands -4 7 £77,500 +31.91% 1
Scotland -68 7 £33,250 -27.32%
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 2
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.63%) IIS
2 3 (1.58%) Apache
2 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.58%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.89%) Azure
2 69 (36.32%) AWS
3 22 (11.58%) SaaS
4 18 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.21%) Serverless
6 7 (3.68%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.58%) GitHub
7 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.05%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.05%) npm
8 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.53%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.53%) IaaS
9 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.37%) Network Security
2 29 (15.26%) SD-WAN
2 29 (15.26%) WAN
3 16 (8.42%) Internet
4 11 (5.79%) Firewall
5 10 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.63%) VPN
7 3 (1.58%) Wireless
8 2 (1.05%) DNS
8 2 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.05%) VoIP
8 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.05%) MySQL
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.05%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (18.42%) Git
2 10 (5.26%) NUnit
2 10 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 8 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.68%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.68%) Selenium
4 7 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.11%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.58%) Gradle
6 3 (1.58%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) GitLab
8 1 (0.53%) Maven
8 1 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 52 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.00%) Finance
3 18 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (9.47%) Law
4 16 (8.42%) Marketing
5 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.26%) Aerospace
6 10 (5.26%) Automotive
6 10 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.74%) Retail
8 4 (2.11%) Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Back Office
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 72 (37.89%) Architect
2 56 (29.47%) Security Architect
3 46 (24.21%) Lead
4 44 (23.16%) Developer
5 42 (22.11%) Senior
6 29 (15.26%) Lead Architect
7 23 (12.11%) Lead Security Architect
8 22 (11.58%) Security Manager
9 21 (11.05%) Software Developer
10 16 (8.42%) Senior Developer
10 16 (8.42%) Technical Architect
11 13 (6.84%) .NET Developer
12 11 (5.79%) C# Developer
12 11 (5.79%) C# Software Developer
12 11 (5.79%) Senior Architect
13 10 (5.26%) Certification Manager
13 10 (5.26%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.74%) Consultant
14 9 (4.74%) Security Consultant
14 9 (4.74%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (24.74%) .NET
2 33 (17.37%) React
3 18 (9.47%) HTML
4 17 (8.95%) ASP.NET
5 14 (7.37%) CSS
6 13 (6.84%) .NET Core
7 12 (6.32%) .NET Framework
7 12 (6.32%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.26%) RESTful
9 9 (4.74%) Entity Framework
9 9 (4.74%) HTML5
9 9 (4.74%) JSON
9 9 (4.74%) OpenID
10 8 (4.21%) OAuth
10 8 (4.21%) Web Services
11 7 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.68%) REST
12 6 (3.16%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.16%) Spring
12 6 (3.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.26%) Management Information System
2 29 (15.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 23 (12.11%) Product Ownership
4 21 (11.05%) Security Posture
5 19 (10.00%) Mobile App
6 15 (7.89%) Cloud Native
7 14 (7.37%) IoT
8 11 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (4.74%) Data Centre
10 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.63%) Operational Technology
11 5 (2.63%) Replication
12 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
13 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (1.05%) e-Learning
13 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Linux
2 8 (4.21%) Kali Linux
3 7 (3.68%) Debian
3 7 (3.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.84%) Agile
2 67 (35.26%) Application Security
3 58 (30.53%) CI/CD
4 55 (28.95%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (27.89%) Information Security
6 47 (24.74%) Secure Coding
7 41 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (20.53%) Security Architecture
8 39 (20.53%) Test Automation
9 38 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 36 (18.95%) TDD
11 34 (17.89%) SDLC
12 32 (16.84%) Vulnerability Management
13 31 (16.32%) DevOps
13 31 (16.32%) Identity Management
13 31 (16.32%) Microservices
14 30 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
15 29 (15.26%) Mentoring
16 26 (13.68%) Coaching
16 26 (13.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.26%) JavaScript
2 46 (24.21%) C#
3 32 (16.84%) SQL
4 30 (15.79%) Java
5 22 (11.58%) Python
6 21 (11.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.21%) Bash
8 7 (3.68%) Bicep
9 6 (3.16%) C
9 6 (3.16%) R
9 6 (3.16%) Scala
10 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.11%) Swift
11 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.05%) PHP
13 2 (1.05%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Ada
14 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 58 (30.53%) CISSP
2 48 (25.26%) CISM
3 43 (22.63%) AWS Certification
4 39 (20.53%) Degree
5 38 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 34 (17.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 34 (17.89%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (17.37%) CCSP
8 29 (15.26%) CCSK
9 24 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (5.79%) DBS Check
10 11 (5.79%) OSCP
11 10 (5.26%) HNC
11 10 (5.26%) HND
12 8 (4.21%) CEH
12 8 (4.21%) GIAC
12 8 (4.21%) GPEN
13 7 (3.68%) CISA
14 6 (3.16%) SANS
15 5 (2.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (36.32%) NIST
2 26 (13.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (9.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (8.95%) GDPR
5 11 (5.79%) PCI DSS
6 10 (5.26%) NCSC
6 10 (5.26%) SLA
7 9 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 8 (4.21%) GRC
9 7 (3.68%) PMO
10 6 (3.16%) NIST 800
11 4 (2.11%) COBIT
11 4 (2.11%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.53%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 50 (26.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (25.26%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.26%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (5.26%) Nessus
4 9 (4.74%) Terraform
5 7 (3.68%) MIIS
6 6 (3.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (2.63%) Kibana
7 5 (2.63%) Suricata
8 3 (1.58%) Nmap
9 2 (1.05%) Grafana
10 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) Qualys
3 5 (2.63%) Cisco
3 5 (2.63%) Juniper
3 5 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.63%) Splunk
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Tanium