OWASP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 587 573
Rank change year-on-year +119 -14 -15
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 115 185 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 34 103 78
10th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,719 £56,809 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% +15.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,394 £90,547 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £83,250
% change year-on-year - -15.92% +26.62%

All Process and 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 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
South East +84 59 £65,000 -7.14% 41
East of England +40 17 £77,500 +19.23% 21
South West +79 15 £72,500 +2.12% 33
Midlands +64 14 £65,000 -16.13% 24
West Midlands +71 10 £70,000 -9.68% 14
North of England +14 9 £65,000 -13.24% 49
Yorkshire +61 5 £59,800 -25.10% 19
North West -28 4 £66,250 +8.24% 28
East Midlands - 4 £36,688 - 9
Scotland +120 1 £105,000 +215.79% 7
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.87%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.13%) Azure
2 50 (43.48%) AWS
3 36 (31.30%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (31.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.91%) PaaS
6 4 (3.48%) SaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
8 2 (1.74%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.87%) GCP
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) Firewall
2 5 (4.35%) Network Security
3 3 (2.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.74%) DHCP
4 2 (1.74%) DNS
4 2 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.74%) Endeca
4 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.87%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.22%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) GitLab
3 4 (3.48%) JMeter
3 4 (3.48%) Selenium
4 2 (1.74%) Mocha
4 2 (1.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) ESLint
5 1 (0.87%) Gatling
5 1 (0.87%) JUnit
5 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.87%) NUnit
5 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.87%) Subversion
General
1 49 (42.61%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (34.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (33.91%) Social Skills
4 23 (20.00%) Finance
5 22 (19.13%) Legal
6 4 (3.48%) Electronics
7 3 (2.61%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Aviation
9 1 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 48 (41.74%) Developer
2 42 (36.52%) Software Developer
3 16 (13.91%) Security Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Lead
5 9 (7.83%) Risk Manager
6 7 (6.09%) Analyst
6 7 (6.09%) Information Officer
6 7 (6.09%) Risk Officer
7 6 (5.22%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) Security Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Development Manager
8 5 (4.35%) IT Development Manager
8 5 (4.35%) IT Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Information Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Information Security Manager
10 3 (2.61%) Architect
10 3 (2.61%) Consultant
10 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (43.48%) .NET
2 44 (38.26%) Node.js
3 36 (31.30%) Pandas
4 15 (13.04%) YAML
5 9 (7.83%) REST
6 7 (6.09%) ASP.NET
6 7 (6.09%) JSON
7 6 (5.22%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.35%) CodeIgniter
8 5 (4.35%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.35%) Laravel
8 5 (4.35%) LDAP
8 5 (4.35%) SOAP
9 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.48%) JWT
9 4 (3.48%) OAuth
9 4 (3.48%) React
9 4 (3.48%) RESTful
10 3 (2.61%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (31.30%) Cyberattack
2 25 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 17 (14.78%) Security Posture
4 9 (7.83%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.61%) PKI
9 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.87%) IoT
10 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.87%) Replication
10 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 41 (35.65%) Android
2 37 (32.17%) Linux
3 10 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.35%) Windows
5 1 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (76.52%) Agile
2 68 (59.13%) CI/CD
3 51 (44.35%) Secure Coding
4 43 (37.39%) Mentoring
5 42 (36.52%) Software Engineering
6 41 (35.65%) Android Development
7 40 (34.78%) Design Patterns
8 39 (33.91%) Kanban
9 38 (33.04%) Collaborative Working
9 38 (33.04%) OO
9 38 (33.04%) OOP
10 36 (31.30%) Coaching
10 36 (31.30%) Containerisation
10 36 (31.30%) Line Management
10 36 (31.30%) Mathematics
10 36 (31.30%) Statistics
11 34 (29.57%) Information Security
12 33 (28.70%) DevOps
13 31 (26.96%) Creative Thinking
14 30 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.61%) JavaScript
2 46 (40.00%) Java
3 40 (34.78%) C++
4 38 (33.04%) Python
5 36 (31.30%) Go
5 36 (31.30%) Rust
6 19 (16.52%) PowerShell
7 15 (13.04%) C#
8 9 (7.83%) SQL
9 6 (5.22%) R
10 5 (4.35%) PHP
11 2 (1.74%) Bash
12 1 (0.87%) Swift
12 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.30%) DV Cleared
3 27 (23.48%) CISSP
4 26 (22.61%) CISM
5 22 (19.13%) CRISC
5 22 (19.13%) Degree
6 17 (14.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (12.17%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.48%) SANS
9 3 (2.61%) CEH
10 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.74%) GIAC
10 2 (1.74%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.87%) CCSP
11 1 (0.87%) CISA
11 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.87%) OSCP
11 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (46.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (26.09%) NIST
3 18 (15.65%) SOC 2
4 16 (13.91%) NCSC
5 13 (11.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 10 (8.70%) GDPR
8 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (6.09%) PCI DSS
10 5 (4.35%) COBIT
11 3 (2.61%) QA
12 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (33.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.87%) NFS
3 1 (0.87%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 39 (33.91%) Terraform
3 36 (31.30%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) Argo
4 2 (1.74%) Graylog
4 2 (1.74%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) cPanel
5 1 (0.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.48%) Oracle
4 2 (1.74%) CyberSource
4 2 (1.74%) Splunk
5 1 (0.87%) New Relic