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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 388 384
Rank change year-on-year +95 -4 -9
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 89 59 72
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48 18 53
10th Percentile £65,014 £61,500 £52,400
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,438 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,625 £84,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +12.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,813 £98,438 £92,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%

All Process and 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 11,882 16,011 17,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.70% 90.85% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,508 9,451 14,406
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 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
Central London +64 21 £75,000 -16.67% 9
West London - 3 £47,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (21.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) Azure
2 24 (26.97%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (26.97%) PaaS
3 21 (23.60%) Azure Logic Apps
3 21 (23.60%) Dynamics 365
3 21 (23.60%) Power Automate
3 21 (23.60%) Power Platform
3 21 (23.60%) PowerApps
4 19 (21.35%) AWS
5 9 (10.11%) GCP
6 8 (8.99%) SaaS
7 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.74%) Serverless
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.49%) GitHub
9 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.25%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.12%) dbt
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) Network Security
2 5 (5.62%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.25%) AMQP
4 2 (2.25%) HTTP
4 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.60%) Power BI
2 6 (6.74%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.12%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) MySQL
4 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Git
2 20 (22.47%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.74%) GitLab
3 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.49%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.25%) Snyk
6 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.12%) JMeter
6 1 (1.12%) Locust
6 1 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 42 (47.19%) Finance
2 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Law
4 11 (12.36%) Banking
5 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.24%) Legal
6 7 (7.87%) Back Office
6 7 (7.87%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.87%) Retail
7 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (40.45%) Lead
2 26 (29.21%) Security Engineer
3 17 (19.10%) Developer
4 8 (8.99%) Development Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Development Support Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Senior
6 6 (6.74%) Backend Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Risk Manager
7 5 (5.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Information Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Information Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) YAML
2 21 (23.60%) REST
2 21 (23.60%) SOAP
3 16 (17.98%) Web Services
4 10 (11.24%) JSON
5 7 (7.87%) Node.js
6 6 (6.74%) FastAPI
6 6 (6.74%) Spring
6 6 (6.74%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.49%) CSS
7 4 (4.49%) HTML
8 3 (3.37%) jQuery
8 3 (3.37%) XML
8 3 (3.37%) XSL
9 2 (2.25%) OAuth
9 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.12%) CSS3
10 1 (1.12%) Gherkin
10 1 (1.12%) NumPy
10 1 (1.12%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.21%) Security Posture
2 18 (20.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (17.98%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Blog
6 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.37%) W3C
7 2 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.12%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.12%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (74.16%) Agile
2 59 (66.29%) CI/CD
3 36 (40.45%) Application Security
3 36 (40.45%) DevSecOps
4 33 (37.08%) Mentoring
5 31 (34.83%) Threat Modelling
6 30 (33.71%) SDLC
7 29 (32.58%) Security Testing
8 28 (31.46%) DevOps
9 27 (30.34%) Scrum
9 27 (30.34%) Test Automation
10 25 (28.09%) Coaching
10 25 (28.09%) Creative Thinking
11 24 (26.97%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (26.97%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (24.72%) Information Security
12 22 (24.72%) Product Strategy
13 21 (23.60%) API Management
13 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
13 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.09%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.98%) Python
3 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.24%) Java
5 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.62%) Bash
6 5 (5.62%) SQL
7 4 (4.49%) Go
8 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (24.72%) Degree
2 18 (20.22%) CISSP
3 15 (16.85%) CISM
3 15 (16.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (15.73%) Master's Degree
5 11 (12.36%) CRISC
6 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
7 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.12%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (53.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (35.96%) NIST
3 25 (28.09%) NCSC
4 18 (20.22%) SOC 2
5 11 (12.36%) PCI DSS
6 9 (10.11%) GDPR
7 6 (6.74%) QA
8 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
9 4 (4.49%) GRC
10 3 (3.37%) SLA
11 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
1 9 (10.11%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Cilium
3 1 (1.12%) Grafana
3 1 (1.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.25%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.25%) Qualys
4 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks