OWASP Job Trends in Reading

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 5 0 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.42% - 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £58,125
25th Percentile £56,250 - £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £85,313
90th Percentile - - £106,125
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 863 437 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 73.07% 85.02% 83.68%
Number of salaries quoted 587 233 949
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,500 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,001 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.18% -12.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OWASP

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Reading over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for OWASP in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Application Security
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (60.00%) GCIA
2 3 (60.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) QA