OWASP Jobs in England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring OWASP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OWASP over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 567 585
Rank change year-on-year +56 +18 -39
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 174 284 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 66 199 186
10th Percentile £45,750 £52,216 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £58,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +24.44%
75th Percentile £80,563 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,750 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +19.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OWASP in England

OWASP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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 +84 61 £65,000 -7.14% 15
London +70 54 £74,750 +6.79% 70
East of England +43 17 £77,500 +19.23% 7
South West +95 15 £72,500 +2.12% 31
Midlands +67 14 £65,000 -16.13% 11
West Midlands +67 10 £70,000 -9.68% 8
North of England +4 10 £65,000 -13.24% 31
Yorkshire +57 6 £62,400 -21.85% 9
North West -27 4 £66,250 +8.24% 21
East Midlands - 4 £36,688 - 3
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.87%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (63.79%) Azure
2 77 (44.25%) AWS
3 50 (28.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (28.16%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (15.52%) PaaS
7 9 (5.17%) GCP
8 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.45%) SaaS
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.87%) IaaS
9 5 (2.87%) Serverless
10 4 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.15%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.15%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.57%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.90%) Network Security
2 6 (3.45%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.15%) DHCP
4 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 2 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.89%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.45%) Power BI
4 5 (2.87%) Big Data
4 5 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.30%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.15%) Endeca
6 2 (1.15%) MySQL
6 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.92%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) JMeter
3 12 (6.90%) Selenium
4 10 (5.75%) JIRA
4 10 (5.75%) Postman
5 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.45%) GitLab
6 6 (3.45%) Locust
7 5 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.87%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.30%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.30%) JUnit
8 4 (2.30%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.30%) Mocha
8 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.72%) Gatling
9 3 (1.72%) TestRail
10 2 (1.15%) ESLint
10 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (42.53%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (31.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.97%) Finance
4 25 (14.37%) Legal
5 9 (5.17%) Banking
6 7 (4.02%) Law
7 4 (2.30%) Electronics
7 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (39.08%) Developer
2 55 (31.61%) Software Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Security Engineer
4 22 (12.64%) Lead
5 11 (6.32%) Senior
6 10 (5.75%) Analyst
6 10 (5.75%) Risk Manager
7 9 (5.17%) Information Officer
7 9 (5.17%) Security Analyst
8 8 (4.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Risk Officer
10 6 (3.45%) Security Manager
10 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.45%) Tester
11 5 (2.87%) Information Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Information Security Manager
11 5 (2.87%) IT Development Manager
11 5 (2.87%) IT Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (37.93%) .NET
2 63 (36.21%) Node.js
3 49 (28.16%) Pandas
4 25 (14.37%) YAML
5 15 (8.62%) REST
6 10 (5.75%) SOAP
7 9 (5.17%) JSON
8 8 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.02%) RESTful
10 6 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.45%) Jest
10 6 (3.45%) LDAP
10 6 (3.45%) React
11 5 (2.87%) CodeIgniter
11 5 (2.87%) JWT
11 5 (2.87%) Laravel
11 5 (2.87%) pytest
11 5 (2.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.16%) Cyberattack
2 30 (17.24%) Management Information System
3 24 (13.79%) Security Posture
4 9 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.72%) PKI
10 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.03%) Android
2 50 (28.74%) Linux
3 10 (5.75%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (71.26%) Agile
2 112 (64.37%) CI/CD
3 80 (45.98%) Secure Coding
4 57 (32.76%) Kanban
5 56 (32.18%) Software Engineering
6 54 (31.03%) Android Development
6 54 (31.03%) DevOps
7 53 (30.46%) Collaborative Working
7 53 (30.46%) Design Patterns
7 53 (30.46%) OO
7 53 (30.46%) OOP
8 51 (29.31%) Containerisation
9 49 (28.16%) Line Management
9 49 (28.16%) Mathematics
9 49 (28.16%) Statistics
10 47 (27.01%) Mentoring
11 46 (26.44%) Security Testing
12 44 (25.29%) Information Security
12 44 (25.29%) Test Automation
13 41 (23.56%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.08%) JavaScript
2 65 (37.36%) Java
3 64 (36.78%) Python
4 54 (31.03%) Go
5 53 (30.46%) C++
6 49 (28.16%) Rust
7 25 (14.37%) PowerShell
7 25 (14.37%) SQL
8 16 (9.20%) C#
9 7 (4.02%) R
10 5 (2.87%) PHP
11 4 (2.30%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.72%) Bash
13 2 (1.15%) Ruby
14 1 (0.57%) Swift
14 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.16%) DV Cleared
3 38 (21.84%) CISSP
4 32 (18.39%) CISM
5 31 (17.82%) Degree
6 26 (14.94%) CRISC
7 21 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (10.92%) Master's Degree
9 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared
10 10 (5.75%) ISTQB
11 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (2.87%) SANS
13 4 (2.30%) CEH
13 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.72%) GIAC
14 3 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 2 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (1.15%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (41.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (28.16%) NIST
3 22 (12.64%) NCSC
3 22 (12.64%) SOC 2
4 17 (9.77%) GDPR
5 15 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (7.47%) PCI DSS
7 11 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (5.75%) QA
9 9 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (2.87%) COBIT
11 3 (1.72%) GRC
11 3 (1.72%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (33.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) Squid
4 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (33.91%) Kubernetes
2 58 (33.33%) Terraform
3 49 (28.16%) Ansible
4 5 (2.87%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.72%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.15%) Argo
6 2 (1.15%) Graylog
6 2 (1.15%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.15%) Kibana
6 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.57%) cPanel
7 1 (0.57%) Grafana
7 1 (0.57%) Nessus
7 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.45%) Oracle
3 5 (2.87%) Databricks
3 5 (2.87%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.30%) Splunk
5 2 (1.15%) Cisco
5 2 (1.15%) CyberSource
5 2 (1.15%) F5
5 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.15%) Google
5 2 (1.15%) New Relic
5 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto