OWASP Job Trends in London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 366 370
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +30
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 61 29 112
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.35% 0.22% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 40 15 102
10th Percentile £64,250 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,885 £52,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +4.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £94,688 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,750 £102,000 £102,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,888 12,472 20,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.97% 96.32% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9,677 7,522 15,917
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in London

OWASP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OWASP

OWASP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OWASP in London

OWASP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the London region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Central London +29 22 £76,500 -7.27% 8
North London - 1 £60,000 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) Azure
2 20 (32.79%) AWS
3 14 (22.95%) GCP
4 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (19.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 12 (19.67%) Power Platform
5 11 (18.03%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (18.03%) Power Automate
5 11 (18.03%) PowerApps
6 10 (16.39%) SaaS
7 9 (14.75%) GitHub
7 9 (14.75%) PaaS
8 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.20%) Serverless
10 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (3.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.03%) Firewall
2 10 (16.39%) Network Security
3 4 (6.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.64%) AMQP
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) Visual Studio
3 6 (9.84%) GitLab
4 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.56%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.92%) JIRA
7 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.28%) JMeter
7 2 (3.28%) Locust
7 2 (3.28%) Storybook
8 1 (1.64%) Snyk
General
1 32 (52.46%) Finance
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Law
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 7 (11.48%) Aviation
5 7 (11.48%) Back Office
5 7 (11.48%) Financial Institution
5 7 (11.48%) Retail
6 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.92%) Legal
8 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Lead
2 13 (21.31%) Security Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Development Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Development Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Security Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 4 (6.56%) Senior
8 3 (4.92%) Applications Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
1 11 (18.03%) SOAP
2 9 (14.75%) YAML
3 8 (13.11%) Web Services
4 6 (9.84%) CSS
4 6 (9.84%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) JSON
5 5 (8.20%) Node.js
6 4 (6.56%) OAuth
7 3 (4.92%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.92%) HTML5
7 3 (4.92%) Sass
7 3 (4.92%) Spring
7 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.28%) CSS3
8 2 (3.28%) Express.js
8 2 (3.28%) Jest
8 2 (3.28%) JWT
8 2 (3.28%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 15 (24.59%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.20%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) Blog
6 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 36 (59.02%) Agile
3 24 (39.34%) Application Security
4 19 (31.15%) DevSecOps
4 19 (31.15%) SDLC
4 19 (31.15%) Threat Modelling
5 17 (27.87%) DevOps
6 16 (26.23%) Cloud Security
6 16 (26.23%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (26.23%) Scrum
6 16 (26.23%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (22.95%) Risk Management
8 14 (22.95%) Security Testing
9 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
10 12 (19.67%) CRM
10 12 (19.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 12 (19.67%) Static Application Security Testing
11 11 (18.03%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.51%) Python
2 13 (21.31%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.75%) Bash
3 9 (14.75%) Java
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.56%) Go
5 4 (6.56%) SQL
6 3 (4.92%) C#
7 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.64%) C
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) CISSP
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 7 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) CISM
3 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.20%) CRISC
5 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.28%) CCSP
7 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.28%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.28%) GCIA
7 2 (3.28%) GCIH
7 2 (3.28%) OSCP
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) CEPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (45.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (29.51%) NIST
3 10 (16.39%) Accessibility
3 10 (16.39%) SOC 2
4 9 (14.75%) NCSC
5 7 (11.48%) PCI DSS
5 7 (11.48%) QA
6 6 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (9.84%) GRC
7 4 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (6.56%) WCAG
8 3 (4.92%) SLA
9 1 (1.64%) GDPR
9 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Cilium
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.92%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.28%) iManage
4 2 (3.28%) Intel
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) SendGrid
4 2 (3.28%) Tenable
4 2 (3.28%) Varonis
5 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.64%) Qualys
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Workday