OWASP Job Trends in the North East

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.19% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72,125
25th Percentile £66,091 - £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.69%
75th Percentile £74,066 - £97,813
90th Percentile - - £101,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -4.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 875 1,024 505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.32% 79.13% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 587 490 417
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,960 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £48,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in the North East

OWASP
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OWASP

OWASP
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Durham - 1 £70,079 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks