OWASP Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 274 255
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +98
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 8 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.075% 0.14% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.16% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 22
10th Percentile £54,125 £58,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,125 £59,375 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,539 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% +6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,625 £65,603
90th Percentile £78,283 £91,875 £72,935
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +12.00% -19.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in the North of England

OWASP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OWASP

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Yorkshire -4 4 £59,000 -41.00% 4
North West +18 2 £72,539 +16.06% 2
North East - 2 £70,079 - 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Datadog
2 2 (25.00%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Locust
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Snyk
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Information Security
4 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Offensive Security
5 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) WCAG
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) New Relic
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Qualys
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
1 1 (12.50%) SAP