OWASP Jobs in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring OWASP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OWASP over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 329 356
Rank change year-on-year +85 +27 +11
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 57 67 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.47% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 17
10th Percentile £37,800 £50,000 £53,200
25th Percentile £39,000 £61,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £95,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +30.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,814 14,237 13,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.85% 84.30% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,314 9,877 7,859
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the South East

OWASP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the South East.

Salary trend for OWASP in the South East

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Middlesex +15 34 - - 3
Surrey - 12 £52,000 - 4
Thames Valley +39 3 £70,000 -3.45% 13
Kent +33 3 - - 5
West Sussex +19 2 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £70,000 - 3
East Sussex - 2 - - 1
Hampshire +47 1 £38,000 -45.71% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (61.40%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) AWS
3 18 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (28.07%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (22.81%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Firewall
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JMeter
2 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.75%) ESLint
2 1 (1.75%) Gatling
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Legal
3 19 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (22.81%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 18 (31.58%) Software Developer
3 13 (22.81%) Lead
3 13 (22.81%) Security Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Risk Manager
5 7 (12.28%) Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Information Officer
5 7 (12.28%) Risk Officer
6 6 (10.53%) Security Analyst
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) CloudOps Manager
7 1 (1.75%) Consultant
7 1 (1.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (1.75%) Information Security Consultant
7 1 (1.75%) Security Consultant
7 1 (1.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) Node.js
2 18 (31.58%) .NET
2 18 (31.58%) Pandas
3 14 (24.56%) YAML
4 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.75%) Jest
4 1 (1.75%) Playwright
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 18 (31.58%) Cyberattack
3 13 (22.81%) Security Posture
4 7 (12.28%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Android
1 18 (31.58%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (94.74%) Agile
2 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 34 (59.65%) Coaching
2 34 (59.65%) Mentoring
3 27 (47.37%) Creative Thinking
4 22 (38.60%) Information Security
4 22 (38.60%) Risk Management
4 22 (38.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (36.84%) Due Diligence
5 21 (36.84%) Quantitative Risk Management
5 21 (36.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (35.09%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (33.33%) Kanban
8 18 (31.58%) Android Development
8 18 (31.58%) Line Management
8 18 (31.58%) Mathematics
8 18 (31.58%) OO
8 18 (31.58%) OOP
8 18 (31.58%) Software Engineering
8 18 (31.58%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) Python
2 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 18 (31.58%) C++
3 18 (31.58%) Go
3 18 (31.58%) Java
3 18 (31.58%) Rust
4 15 (26.32%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.53%) R
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) CISM
1 22 (38.60%) CISSP
2 21 (36.84%) CRISC
3 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 18 (31.58%) DV Cleared
5 14 (24.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (24.56%) Degree
6 13 (22.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.75%) CISA
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (61.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (26.32%) NIST
3 14 (24.56%) NCSC
3 14 (24.56%) SOC 2
4 9 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (12.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.75%) GDPR
6 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Kubernetes
1 20 (35.09%) Terraform
2 18 (31.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft