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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 384 394
Rank change year-on-year +84 +10 +43
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 90 65 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47 28 65
10th Percentile £46,000 £59,925 £60,700
25th Percentile £66,188 £70,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +8.28%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £120,000 £113,250
England median annual salary £72,250 £71,991 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.36% -7.11% +10.71%

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 11,194 17,069 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.10% 89.34% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,079 10,412 17,221
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +41 12 £80,000 -23.81% 3
West London - 5 £47,000 -
South London - 2 - - 1
East London - 2 - - 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (66.67%) Azure
2 28 (31.11%) AWS
3 26 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (22.22%) PaaS
5 14 (15.56%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (14.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 10 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 10 (11.11%) PowerApps
9 7 (7.78%) GCP
9 7 (7.78%) Serverless
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) AMQP
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (13.33%) Power BI
3 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (5.56%) Big Data
5 5 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.22%) MySQL
7 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.11%) Metadata
8 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 14 (15.56%) Visual Studio
3 7 (7.78%) JMeter
3 7 (7.78%) Postman
4 6 (6.67%) Locust
4 6 (6.67%) Selenium
5 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.56%) Robot Framework
6 4 (4.44%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.11%) Gatling
7 1 (1.11%) JIRA
7 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.11%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.11%) MLflow
7 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.11%) Snyk
7 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.11%) TestRail
General
1 28 (31.11%) Finance
2 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (11.11%) Banking
5 10 (11.11%) Legal
6 7 (7.78%) Law
7 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) Developer
2 21 (23.33%) Lead
3 19 (21.11%) Security Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Senior
6 8 (8.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Risk Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Information Security Officer
9 5 (5.56%) Security Officer
10 4 (4.44%) Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Business Information Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Information Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Information Assurance Officer
10 4 (4.44%) Information Risk Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Integration Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Risk Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Security Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.89%) YAML
2 17 (18.89%) Node.js
3 15 (16.67%) REST
4 14 (15.56%) SOAP
5 13 (14.44%) Pandas
6 12 (13.33%) .NET
6 12 (13.33%) Web Services
7 7 (7.78%) JSON
8 5 (5.56%) CSS
8 5 (5.56%) HTML
8 5 (5.56%) pytest
9 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.33%) jQuery
9 3 (3.33%) Spring
9 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.33%) XML
9 3 (3.33%) XSL
10 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
10 2 (2.22%) PyTorch
10 2 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Security Posture
2 16 (17.78%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.33%) Cyberattack
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.33%) W3C
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.11%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.11%) NHS
8 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Linux
2 12 (13.33%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (75.56%) Agile
2 63 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.67%) Security Testing
4 32 (35.56%) DevSecOps
5 30 (33.33%) Application Security
6 29 (32.22%) DevOps
7 28 (31.11%) SDLC
7 28 (31.11%) Test Automation
8 27 (30.00%) Mentoring
9 25 (27.78%) Cloud Security
9 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
11 22 (24.44%) Scrum
11 22 (24.44%) Secure Coding
12 21 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (22.22%) Coaching
13 20 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
14 19 (21.11%) Information Security
14 19 (21.11%) Product Strategy
15 18 (20.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.44%) Python
2 23 (25.56%) Java
2 23 (25.56%) JavaScript
3 20 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 17 (18.89%) Go
5 16 (17.78%) SQL
6 12 (13.33%) C++
6 12 (13.33%) Rust
7 6 (6.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (25.56%) Degree
2 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
3 19 (21.11%) CISSP
4 15 (16.67%) CISM
4 15 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 13 (14.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (14.44%) Master's Degree
6 10 (11.11%) CRISC
7 7 (7.78%) ISTQB
7 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.11%) CEH
10 1 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (47.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (34.44%) NIST
3 21 (23.33%) NCSC
4 13 (14.44%) SOC 2
5 9 (10.00%) GDPR
6 8 (8.89%) QA
7 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (5.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
11 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Kubernetes
1 19 (21.11%) Terraform
2 12 (13.33%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.11%) Bugsnag
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.11%) Nessus
4 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) Databricks
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.22%) Google
4 2 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.11%) Qualys
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce