Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 577 554
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 -70
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 318 444 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.45% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 229 225 523
10th Percentile £50,400 £46,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP.

Salary trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +1 288 £70,000 -17.65% 59
UK excluding London +13 191 £70,000 - 31
Work from Home +92 170 £70,000 -17.65% 37
London +8 104 £70,000 -17.65% 25
South East +35 65 £70,000 -6.67% 13
North of England +37 48 £79,842 +45.17% 8
South West +1 42 £70,000 -34.20% 5
North West +8 33 £63,103 +44.24% 3
East of England +13 19 £65,000 -27.78% 3
Yorkshire +78 11 £79,842 -15.96% 4
West Midlands +24 7 £77,500 +34.78% 1
Midlands +7 7 £77,500 +34.78% 1
Scotland -73 7 £33,250 -44.58%
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 -

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (4.72%) CMS
2 7 (2.20%) Confluence
3 6 (1.89%) EPiServer
4 5 (1.57%) IIS
5 3 (0.94%) Apache
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.94%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 156 (49.06%) Azure
2 88 (27.67%) AWS
3 38 (11.95%) SaaS
4 36 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.97%) Serverless
6 12 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (3.14%) IaaS
8 10 (3.14%) PaaS
9 9 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.20%) Azure API Management
10 7 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (2.20%) Pulumi
11 6 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.89%) Azure Service Fabric
12 5 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.26%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.69%) Network Security
2 33 (10.38%) SD-WAN
2 33 (10.38%) WAN
3 21 (6.60%) Firewall
4 17 (5.35%) Internet
5 13 (4.09%) Wireless
6 9 (2.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.57%) VPN
8 2 (0.63%) DNS
8 2 (0.63%) HTTP
8 2 (0.63%) IPv4
8 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.63%) VoIP
8 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.52%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.97%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.83%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.26%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.26%) Redis
5 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.63%) MySQL
7 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.31%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 58 (18.24%) Git
2 27 (8.49%) Visual Studio
3 17 (5.35%) NUnit
3 17 (5.35%) Oracle APEX
4 14 (4.40%) Burp Suite
5 12 (3.77%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.14%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.14%) Selenium
7 7 (2.20%) Jasmine
7 7 (2.20%) JIRA
7 7 (2.20%) MSTest
7 7 (2.20%) Postman
7 7 (2.20%) SoapUI
7 7 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.26%) JMeter
8 4 (1.26%) Moq
8 4 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
General
1 92 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.38%) Finance
3 32 (10.06%) Marketing
4 27 (8.49%) Law
5 25 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.35%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.72%) Banking
9 11 (3.46%) Retail
10 10 (3.14%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.14%) Automotive
10 10 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.83%) Legal
12 6 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.26%) Welsh Language
14 2 (0.63%) Back Office
14 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Police
15 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (29.25%) Architect
2 91 (28.62%) Senior
3 82 (25.79%) Developer
4 65 (20.44%) Security Architect
5 64 (20.13%) Lead
6 39 (12.26%) Security Manager
7 38 (11.95%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.38%) Lead Architect
9 27 (8.49%) Lead Security Architect
10 26 (8.18%) .NET Developer
10 26 (8.18%) Technical Architect
11 23 (7.23%) Software Developer
12 17 (5.35%) Lead Developer
13 16 (5.03%) Analyst
13 16 (5.03%) Full Stack Developer
14 15 (4.72%) Security Analyst
15 14 (4.40%) Lead .NET Developer
15 14 (4.40%) Security Specialist
16 12 (3.77%) Penetration Tester
16 12 (3.77%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (24.21%) .NET
2 54 (16.98%) REST
3 46 (14.47%) React
4 40 (12.58%) HTML
4 40 (12.58%) JSON
5 33 (10.38%) CSS
6 32 (10.06%) ASP.NET
7 28 (8.81%) .NET Framework
8 27 (8.49%) Web Services
9 25 (7.86%) SOAP
10 22 (6.92%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.66%) jQuery
11 18 (5.66%) OAuth
11 18 (5.66%) Vue
12 17 (5.35%) XML
13 16 (5.03%) .NET Core
13 16 (5.03%) Node.js
14 14 (4.40%) RESTful
15 13 (4.09%) HTML5
15 13 (4.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.61%) Management Information System
2 34 (10.69%) IoT
3 33 (10.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 30 (9.43%) Product Ownership
5 25 (7.86%) Cloud Native
6 23 (7.23%) Mobile App
7 22 (6.92%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.57%) Replication
12 4 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.94%) W3C
14 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.09%) Linux
2 10 (3.14%) Kali Linux
3 7 (2.20%) Debian
3 7 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 6 (1.89%) Unix
5 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.22%) Agile
2 106 (33.33%) Application Security
3 93 (29.25%) Cybersecurity
3 93 (29.25%) Information Security
4 81 (25.47%) CI/CD
5 66 (20.75%) Mentoring
6 64 (20.13%) Secure Coding
7 59 (18.55%) DevOps
8 58 (18.24%) Microservices
8 58 (18.24%) Security Architecture
9 55 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (17.30%) Test Automation
10 54 (16.98%) Penetration Testing
11 53 (16.67%) TDD
12 51 (16.04%) SDLC
12 51 (16.04%) Vulnerability Management
13 46 (14.47%) Coaching
14 45 (14.15%) Computer Science
15 43 (13.52%) Software Engineering
16 38 (11.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (33.96%) JavaScript
2 82 (25.79%) C#
3 78 (24.53%) SQL
4 46 (14.47%) Python
5 39 (12.26%) Java
6 23 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.35%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.03%) T-SQL
9 13 (4.09%) C
10 12 (3.77%) XPath
11 11 (3.46%) Bash
12 9 (2.83%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.20%) Bicep
14 6 (1.89%) R
14 6 (1.89%) Scala
15 5 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (1.26%) Swift
17 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.63%) PHP
18 2 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (25.47%) CISSP
2 63 (19.81%) CISM
3 49 (15.41%) Degree
4 48 (15.09%) AWS Certification
5 45 (14.15%) Azure Certification
6 40 (12.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 39 (12.26%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (11.64%) CCSP
9 33 (10.38%) CCSK
10 32 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (7.55%) OSCP
12 19 (5.97%) GIAC
13 16 (5.03%) CREST Certified
14 15 (4.72%) CEH
15 14 (4.40%) CISA
16 13 (4.09%) SANS
17 11 (3.46%) CompTIA CySA+
17 11 (3.46%) DBS Check
18 10 (3.14%) HNC
18 10 (3.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (29.87%) NIST
2 41 (12.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (9.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (8.18%) PCI DSS
5 20 (6.29%) GDPR
6 15 (4.72%) GRC
6 15 (4.72%) NCSC
7 14 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (3.14%) COBIT
8 10 (3.14%) SLA
9 9 (2.83%) Accessibility
10 8 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (2.20%) PMO
12 6 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.89%) NIST 800
12 6 (1.89%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.94%) ISO 9000
14 3 (0.94%) WCAG
15 2 (0.63%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 63 (19.81%) Docker
2 7 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 57 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.38%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (4.40%) Nessus
4 13 (4.09%) Nmap
5 12 (3.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 11 (3.46%) Terraform
7 7 (2.20%) MIIS
8 6 (1.89%) Grafana
9 5 (1.57%) Kibana
10 4 (1.26%) Suricata
11 2 (0.63%) QRadar
12 1 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.23%) Oracle
3 17 (5.35%) Qualys
4 6 (1.89%) Splunk
5 4 (1.26%) Cisco
5 4 (1.26%) Juniper
5 4 (1.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.94%) Google
7 2 (0.63%) IBM
7 2 (0.63%) Tanium
8 1 (0.31%) CA
8 1 (0.31%) VMware