Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 574 560
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 -87
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 314 449 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.45% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 228 227 524
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £84,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +29.23% -
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £111,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - +19.15% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +16 284 £70,000 -17.65% 59
UK excluding London +28 187 £70,000 - 29
Work from Home +91 170 £70,000 -17.65% 38
London +6 104 £70,000 -17.65% 26
South East +43 64 £70,000 -6.67% 13
North of England +46 48 £79,842 +45.17% 7
South West +23 39 £70,000 -34.20% 3
North West +17 33 £63,103 +44.24% 2
East of England +12 19 £65,000 -27.78% 4
Yorkshire +79 11 £79,842 -15.96% 4
West Midlands +25 7 £77,500 +34.78% 2
Midlands +7 7 £77,500 +34.78% 2
Scotland -80 7 £33,250 -44.58%
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
Wales - 2 £72,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 -

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (4.78%) CMS
2 7 (2.23%) Confluence
3 6 (1.91%) EPiServer
4 5 (1.59%) IIS
5 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 153 (48.73%) Azure
2 85 (27.07%) AWS
3 38 (12.10%) SaaS
4 36 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.05%) Serverless
6 11 (3.50%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.18%) IaaS
7 10 (3.18%) PaaS
8 8 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.23%) Azure API Management
9 7 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.23%) Pulumi
10 6 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.91%) Azure Service Fabric
11 5 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.51%) SD-WAN
1 33 (10.51%) WAN
2 32 (10.19%) Network Security
3 20 (6.37%) Firewall
4 16 (5.10%) Internet
5 13 (4.14%) Wireless
6 8 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.27%) VPN
8 2 (0.64%) DNS
8 2 (0.64%) HTTP
8 2 (0.64%) IPv4
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
8 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.64%) VoIP
8 2 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.69%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.05%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.27%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.27%) Redis
5 4 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.96%) MySQL
6 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.64%) Power BI
8 1 (0.32%) Big Data
8 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.32%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 58 (18.47%) Git
2 27 (8.60%) Visual Studio
3 17 (5.41%) NUnit
3 17 (5.41%) Oracle APEX
4 13 (4.14%) Burp Suite
5 11 (3.50%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.18%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.18%) Selenium
7 7 (2.23%) Jasmine
7 7 (2.23%) JIRA
7 7 (2.23%) MSTest
7 7 (2.23%) Postman
7 7 (2.23%) SoapUI
7 7 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (2.23%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.27%) JMeter
8 4 (1.27%) Moq
8 4 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 91 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.02%) Finance
3 30 (9.55%) Marketing
4 25 (7.96%) Law
5 24 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.78%) Banking
9 12 (3.82%) Retail
10 10 (3.18%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.18%) Automotive
10 10 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.55%) Legal
12 6 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.27%) Welsh Language
14 2 (0.64%) Back Office
14 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.64%) Police
15 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (28.66%) Architect
2 89 (28.34%) Senior
3 83 (26.43%) Developer
4 64 (20.38%) Security Architect
5 62 (19.75%) Lead
6 38 (12.10%) Security Manager
6 38 (12.10%) Senior Developer
7 31 (9.87%) Lead Architect
8 27 (8.60%) Lead Security Architect
9 26 (8.28%) .NET Developer
9 26 (8.28%) Technical Architect
10 23 (7.32%) Software Developer
11 17 (5.41%) Lead Developer
12 16 (5.10%) Analyst
12 16 (5.10%) Full Stack Developer
13 15 (4.78%) Security Analyst
14 14 (4.46%) Lead .NET Developer
14 14 (4.46%) Security Specialist
15 12 (3.82%) Consultant
15 12 (3.82%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (24.52%) .NET
2 53 (16.88%) REST
3 46 (14.65%) React
4 40 (12.74%) HTML
4 40 (12.74%) JSON
5 33 (10.51%) CSS
6 32 (10.19%) ASP.NET
7 28 (8.92%) .NET Framework
8 26 (8.28%) Web Services
9 25 (7.96%) SOAP
10 22 (7.01%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.73%) jQuery
11 18 (5.73%) Vue
12 17 (5.41%) OAuth
12 17 (5.41%) XML
13 16 (5.10%) .NET Core
13 16 (5.10%) Node.js
14 14 (4.46%) RESTful
15 13 (4.14%) HTML5
15 13 (4.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.83%) Management Information System
2 34 (10.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 34 (10.83%) IoT
3 30 (9.55%) Product Ownership
4 24 (7.64%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.32%) Mobile App
6 20 (6.37%) Security Posture
7 13 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.27%) Replication
12 4 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.96%) W3C
14 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.46%) Linux
2 9 (2.87%) Kali Linux
3 8 (2.55%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.23%) Debian
5 6 (1.91%) Unix
6 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.27%) Windows
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.67%) Agile
2 103 (32.80%) Application Security
3 93 (29.62%) Information Security
4 90 (28.66%) Cybersecurity
5 80 (25.48%) CI/CD
6 66 (21.02%) Mentoring
7 63 (20.06%) Secure Coding
8 59 (18.79%) DevOps
9 58 (18.47%) Microservices
10 57 (18.15%) Security Architecture
11 55 (17.52%) Test Automation
12 54 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (16.88%) Penetration Testing
13 53 (16.88%) TDD
14 51 (16.24%) SDLC
15 49 (15.61%) Vulnerability Management
16 46 (14.65%) Coaching
17 43 (13.69%) Computer Science
18 42 (13.38%) Software Engineering
19 36 (11.46%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (34.39%) JavaScript
2 82 (26.11%) C#
3 76 (24.20%) SQL
4 43 (13.69%) Python
5 37 (11.78%) Java
6 23 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.10%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.82%) XPath
10 11 (3.50%) Bash
10 11 (3.50%) C
11 8 (2.55%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.23%) Bicep
13 4 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.27%) R
13 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 4 (1.27%) Swift
14 3 (0.96%) PHP
14 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (25.16%) CISSP
2 62 (19.75%) CISM
3 47 (14.97%) AWS Certification
3 47 (14.97%) Degree
4 44 (14.01%) Azure Certification
5 40 (12.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 39 (12.42%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (11.78%) CCSP
8 33 (10.51%) CCSK
9 31 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (7.64%) OSCP
11 19 (6.05%) GIAC
12 16 (5.10%) CREST Certified
13 15 (4.78%) CEH
14 13 (4.14%) CISA
15 11 (3.50%) CompTIA CySA+
15 11 (3.50%) DBS Check
15 11 (3.50%) SANS
16 10 (3.18%) HNC
16 10 (3.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (29.30%) NIST
2 38 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (9.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (7.64%) PCI DSS
5 20 (6.37%) GDPR
6 15 (4.78%) GRC
6 15 (4.78%) NCSC
7 14 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (3.18%) COBIT
8 10 (3.18%) SLA
9 9 (2.87%) Accessibility
10 7 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (2.23%) PMO
11 6 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (1.91%) NIST 800
11 6 (1.91%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 3 (0.96%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.96%) WCAG
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 63 (20.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 57 (18.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.51%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (4.46%) Nessus
4 12 (3.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 12 (3.82%) Nmap
5 10 (3.18%) Terraform
6 7 (2.23%) MIIS
7 6 (1.91%) Grafana
8 5 (1.59%) Kibana
9 3 (0.96%) Suricata
10 2 (0.64%) QRadar
11 1 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 58 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.32%) Oracle
3 17 (5.41%) Qualys
4 5 (1.59%) Splunk
5 3 (0.96%) Cisco
5 3 (0.96%) Google
5 3 (0.96%) Juniper
5 3 (0.96%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.64%) IBM
6 2 (0.64%) Tanium
7 1 (0.32%) CA
7 1 (0.32%) VMware