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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 562 575
Rank change year-on-year +57 +13 -42
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 171 283 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.38% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 64 200 196
10th Percentile £45,750 £52,243 £46,225
25th Percentile £47,969 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.16% +25.19%
75th Percentile £81,063 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,625 £114,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £83,250
% change year-on-year - -15.92% +26.62%

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 45,797 73,583 84,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.20% 85.02% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 22,691 53,859 49,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,125
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 22 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 22 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 59 £65,000 -7.14% 32
London +70 54 £74,875 +6.96% 63
East of England +40 17 £77,500 +19.23% 21
South West +79 15 £72,500 +2.12% 31
Midlands +64 14 £65,000 -16.13% 24
West Midlands +71 10 £70,000 -9.68% 14
North of England +14 9 £65,000 -13.24% 46
Yorkshire +61 5 £59,800 -25.10% 18
North West -28 4 £66,250 +8.24% 26
East Midlands - 4 £36,688 - 9
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 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 110 (64.33%) Azure
2 77 (45.03%) AWS
3 50 (29.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (28.65%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (15.20%) PaaS
7 9 (5.26%) GCP
8 6 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.51%) SaaS
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.92%) IaaS
9 5 (2.92%) Serverless
10 4 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.75%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.17%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.02%) Network Security
2 6 (3.51%) Firewall
3 3 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.17%) DHCP
4 2 (1.17%) DNS
4 2 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.82%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.85%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.51%) Power BI
4 5 (2.92%) Big Data
4 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.34%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.17%) Endeca
6 2 (1.17%) MySQL
6 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Git
2 14 (8.19%) JMeter
3 12 (7.02%) Selenium
4 10 (5.85%) JIRA
4 10 (5.85%) Postman
5 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.51%) Locust
7 5 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.92%) GitLab
7 5 (2.92%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.34%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.34%) JUnit
8 4 (2.34%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.34%) Mocha
8 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.75%) Gatling
9 3 (1.75%) TestRail
10 2 (1.17%) ESLint
10 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.17%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (43.27%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (32.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 31 (18.13%) Finance
5 24 (14.04%) Legal
6 8 (4.68%) Banking
7 7 (4.09%) Law
8 4 (2.34%) Electronics
8 4 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (39.77%) Developer
2 55 (32.16%) Software Developer
3 22 (12.87%) Security Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Lead
5 12 (7.02%) Senior
6 11 (6.43%) Analyst
7 10 (5.85%) Security Analyst
8 9 (5.26%) Risk Manager
9 8 (4.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) Information Officer
9 8 (4.68%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Risk Officer
11 6 (3.51%) Security Manager
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.51%) Tester
12 5 (2.92%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.92%) Information Security Manager
12 5 (2.92%) IT Development Manager
12 5 (2.92%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.01%) .NET
2 63 (36.84%) Node.js
3 49 (28.65%) Pandas
4 24 (14.04%) YAML
5 15 (8.77%) REST
6 9 (5.26%) JSON
6 9 (5.26%) SOAP
7 8 (4.68%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.09%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.51%) .NET Core
9 6 (3.51%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.51%) Jest
9 6 (3.51%) React
9 6 (3.51%) RESTful
10 5 (2.92%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (2.92%) Entity Framework
10 5 (2.92%) JWT
10 5 (2.92%) Laravel
10 5 (2.92%) OAuth
10 5 (2.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.65%) Cyberattack
2 28 (16.37%) Management Information System
3 22 (12.87%) Security Posture
4 9 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.75%) PKI
9 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.58%) Android
2 50 (29.24%) Linux
3 10 (5.85%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.92%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (70.76%) Agile
2 110 (64.33%) CI/CD
3 79 (46.20%) Secure Coding
4 57 (33.33%) Kanban
5 56 (32.75%) Software Engineering
6 54 (31.58%) Android Development
7 53 (30.99%) Collaborative Working
7 53 (30.99%) Design Patterns
7 53 (30.99%) OO
7 53 (30.99%) OOP
8 52 (30.41%) DevOps
9 51 (29.82%) Containerisation
10 49 (28.65%) Line Management
10 49 (28.65%) Mathematics
10 49 (28.65%) Statistics
11 45 (26.32%) Mentoring
11 45 (26.32%) Security Testing
12 43 (25.15%) Information Security
12 43 (25.15%) Test Automation
13 39 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.77%) JavaScript
2 64 (37.43%) Java
2 64 (37.43%) Python
3 54 (31.58%) Go
4 53 (30.99%) C++
5 49 (28.65%) Rust
6 25 (14.62%) SQL
7 23 (13.45%) PowerShell
8 15 (8.77%) C#
9 7 (4.09%) R
10 5 (2.92%) PHP
11 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.17%) Bash
12 2 (1.17%) Ruby
13 1 (0.58%) Swift
13 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.65%) DV Cleared
3 37 (21.64%) CISSP
4 31 (18.13%) CISM
5 29 (16.96%) Degree
6 26 (15.20%) CRISC
7 20 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (10.53%) Master's Degree
9 11 (6.43%) SC Cleared
10 10 (5.85%) ISTQB
11 9 (5.26%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (2.92%) SANS
13 4 (2.34%) CEH
13 4 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.75%) GIAC
15 2 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (1.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (41.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (28.07%) NIST
3 21 (12.28%) NCSC
4 20 (11.70%) SOC 2
5 16 (9.36%) GDPR
6 15 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (7.02%) PCI DSS
8 11 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (5.26%) QA
10 5 (2.92%) COBIT
11 4 (2.34%) GRC
12 3 (1.75%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (34.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) NFS
3 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 59 (34.50%) Kubernetes
2 58 (33.92%) Terraform
3 49 (28.65%) Ansible
4 5 (2.92%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.17%) Argo
6 2 (1.17%) Graylog
6 2 (1.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.58%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.58%) cPanel
7 1 (0.58%) Grafana
7 1 (0.58%) Kibana
7 1 (0.58%) Nessus
7 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.51%) Oracle
3 5 (2.92%) Databricks
3 5 (2.92%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.34%) Splunk
5 2 (1.17%) Cisco
5 2 (1.17%) CyberSource
5 2 (1.17%) F5
5 2 (1.17%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.17%) Google
5 2 (1.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.58%) New Relic