OWASP Jobs in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 249 248
Rank change year-on-year +85 -1 +57
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 15 41 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.44% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.53% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8 19 10
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,869 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £106,386
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -34.20% +102.64%
75th Percentile £85,319 £79,443 £133,020
90th Percentile £97,144 £91,934 £135,693
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +30.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,350 7,751 6,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.21% 83.02% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 5,589 3,517
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol +49 13 £80,000 +11.13% 9
Somerset +9 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Electronics
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Management Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) iOS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) .NET
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Framework
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (26.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) JWT
3 2 (13.33%) Keycloak
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 2 (13.33%) SAML
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Information Security
3 6 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 5 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) API Development
5 4 (26.67%) Refactoring
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (26.67%) User Experience
5 4 (26.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CEH
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) GIAC
2 2 (13.33%) ISSAP
2 2 (13.33%) SANS
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) NIST
2 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) COBIT
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Argo
2 2 (13.33%) Graylog
2 2 (13.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk