OWASP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 514 473
Rank change year-on-year +55 -41 +69
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 58 66 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 37 43 61
10th Percentile £46,150 £37,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £47,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +18.45% -5.84%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OWASP

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
South East +26 21 £70,000 +3.70% 28
South West +7 11 £80,000 -5.88% 13
North of England +20 8 £67,539 +5.94% 20
East of England +29 7 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Midlands +23 5 £54,021 -22.83% 20
West Midlands +19 4 £70,542 +0.77% 11
Scotland -1 4 £90,000 -10.00% 7
Yorkshire -1 4 £59,000 -41.00% 10
North West +16 2 £72,539 +16.06% 7
North East - 2 £70,079 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 8
Wales - 1 £70,079 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (48.28%) Azure
2 23 (39.66%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) PaaS
4 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.79%) SaaS
6 6 (10.34%) Datadog
6 6 (10.34%) dbt
7 5 (8.62%) GCP
8 4 (6.90%) Azure App Service
8 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.90%) Serverless
9 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.45%) GitHub
10 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.45%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.72%) IaaS
11 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) HTTP
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (6.90%) VPN
2 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) Internet
2 3 (5.17%) Wireless
3 1 (1.72%) AMQP
3 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) MPLS
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) GitLab
1 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.07%) Cucumber
3 6 (10.34%) JMeter
3 6 (10.34%) Locust
4 4 (6.90%) Burp Suite
4 4 (6.90%) JIRA
4 4 (6.90%) Snyk
5 3 (5.17%) Git
5 3 (5.17%) Metasploit
5 3 (5.17%) Selenium
6 2 (3.45%) Gatling
6 2 (3.45%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.45%) TestRail
7 1 (1.72%) Postman
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Security Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Lead
3 11 (18.97%) Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Software Developer
6 6 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Test Leader
7 5 (8.62%) Senior
8 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.90%) React Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Tester
9 2 (3.45%) .NET Software Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.45%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.45%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Manual Tester
9 2 (3.45%) Penetration Tester
9 2 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) .NET
2 10 (17.24%) .NET Core
2 10 (17.24%) React
3 8 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) Gherkin
4 6 (10.34%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.62%) YAML
6 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (6.90%) Blazor
6 4 (6.90%) CSS
7 2 (3.45%) Avalonia
7 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.45%) Playwright
7 2 (3.45%) Spring
7 2 (3.45%) WPF
8 1 (1.72%) Node.js
8 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) SCADA
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Android
5 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 27 (46.55%) Security Testing
3 25 (43.10%) Agile
3 25 (43.10%) DevOps
4 21 (36.21%) Application Security
4 21 (36.21%) Test Automation
5 18 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (27.59%) DevSecOps
6 16 (27.59%) SDLC
7 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (22.41%) Information Security
8 13 (22.41%) Mentoring
8 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
9 12 (20.69%) Observability
9 12 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
10 11 (18.97%) Cloud Security
11 10 (17.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
12 9 (15.52%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) Java
2 14 (24.14%) Python
3 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.79%) C#
5 7 (12.07%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) XAML
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) Degree
3 9 (15.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.07%) CISSP
6 5 (8.62%) CISM
6 5 (8.62%) Master's Degree
7 4 (6.90%) CRISC
8 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 3 (5.17%) OSCP
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.45%) CREST Certified
9 2 (3.45%) GPEN
9 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
9 2 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.72%) CEH
10 1 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (1.72%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.03%) NIST
2 17 (29.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (20.69%) NCSC
4 9 (15.52%) Accessibility
4 9 (15.52%) QA
5 7 (12.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (12.07%) WCAG
6 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (8.62%) GDPR
6 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (8.62%) PCI DSS
7 4 (6.90%) GRC
8 3 (5.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.72%) COBIT
9 1 (1.72%) Def Stans
9 1 (1.72%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Squid
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Terraform
2 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 10 (17.24%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Nessus
4 3 (5.17%) Nmap
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Ansible
5 2 (3.45%) CASB
6 1 (1.72%) Argo
6 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Qualys
3 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.90%) Checkmarx
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) Imperva
6 1 (1.72%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) Tenable
6 1 (1.72%) Thales
6 1 (1.72%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.72%) VMware
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler