OWASP Jobs in Scotland

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 197 223
Rank change year-on-year -73 +26 -35
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 7 22 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.10% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 19
10th Percentile £25,525 £38,479 £37,920
25th Percentile £27,813 £43,697 £47,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £45,751 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.32% -46.18% +93.18%
75th Percentile £40,313 £84,056 £90,000
90th Percentile £43,575 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £84,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.16% +30.00% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,201 4,349 5,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.47% 94.22% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,184 2,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.20% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,393 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Scotland.

Salary trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +19 5 - -
Glasgow -112 1 £42,500 -7.11%
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Consultant
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 5 (71.43%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Laravel
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Groovy
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
1 5 (71.43%) NCSC
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform