OWASP Job Trends in Birmingham

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,323 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 - -
75th Percentile £74,762 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,542 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% +12.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

OWASP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 1,686 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.30% 93.30% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 985 786 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

OWASP
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Locust
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform