OWASP Job Trends in Kent

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 83 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.36% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.28% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £97,875 -
25th Percentile £106,250 £98,438 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £101,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £118,750 £103,438 -
90th Percentile - £103,625 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -31.03% +11.54% -10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 694 710 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 83.92% 78.02% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 400 292 350
10th Percentile £27,450 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £56,438 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,375 £77,250 £71,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Kent

OWASP
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing OWASP

OWASP
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Kent region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Tunbridge Wells +1 2 - -
OWASP
South East

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) AMQP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Snyk
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (100.00%) Qualys
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce