The first table below looks at the demand for OWASP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OWASP over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Rank 205 - 161
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 2 0 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.040% - 0.217%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% - 0.315%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 8
Average salary £33,500 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3728 3115 2859
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 75.09% 69.18% 68.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3143 2685 2417
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Warwickshire - 2 £33,500 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) J2SE
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) iSeries
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing

OWASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) J2SE
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) iSeries
2 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle