OWASP Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 10 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.56% - 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 - £79,842
75th Percentile - - £84,919
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £47,000 - £79,842

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,306 410 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 72.92% 92.34% 85.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 275 1,060
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,772
North East median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -4.15%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

OWASP
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OWASP

OWASP
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 10 £47,000 - 2
OWASP
North East

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Firebase
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (50.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) fastlane
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 5 (50.00%) Crashlytics
2 5 (50.00%) Gradle
2 5 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 10 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Android Developer
2 5 (50.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 5 (50.00%) Android SDK
2 5 (50.00%) Core Data
2 5 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 5 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 5 (50.00%) Retrofit
2 5 (50.00%) SwiftUI
2 5 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Android
1 5 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) API Development
1 10 (100.00%) API Integration
1 10 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 10 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Kanban
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 10 (100.00%) MVVM
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
1 10 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 10 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 5 (50.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 10 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (50.00%) Apple
2 5 (50.00%) Google