Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 541 611 586
Rank change year-on-year +70 -25 -39
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 174 312 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 65 222 212
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,050 £45,123
25th Percentile £48,000 £57,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £83,250
Median % change year-on-year - -15.92% +26.62%
75th Percentile £82,000 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,375 £114,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% +15.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Top 14 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 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
England +57 171 £70,000 - 519
UK excluding London +119 115 £65,000 -7.14% 490
Work from Home +64 97 £70,000 - 193
South East +84 59 £65,000 -7.14% 116
London +70 54 £74,875 +6.96% 83
East of England +40 17 £77,500 +19.23% 69
South West +79 15 £72,500 +2.12% 75
Midlands +64 14 £65,000 -16.13% 85
West Midlands +71 10 £70,000 -9.68% 47
North of England +14 9 £65,000 -13.24% 118
Yorkshire +61 5 £59,800 -25.10% 49
North West -28 4 £66,250 +8.24% 58
East Midlands - 4 £36,688 - 33
Scotland +120 1 £105,000 +215.79% 23

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 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 110 (63.22%) Azure
2 77 (44.25%) AWS
3 50 (28.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (28.16%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (14.94%) PaaS
7 9 (5.17%) GCP
8 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.45%) SaaS
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.87%) IaaS
9 5 (2.87%) Serverless
10 4 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.15%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.15%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.90%) Network Security
2 6 (3.45%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.15%) DHCP
4 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 2 (1.15%) HTTP
4 2 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.31%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.45%) Power BI
4 5 (2.87%) Big Data
4 5 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.30%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.15%) Endeca
6 2 (1.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (12.07%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) JMeter
3 12 (6.90%) JIRA
3 12 (6.90%) Selenium
4 10 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.75%) Postman
5 6 (3.45%) JUnit
5 6 (3.45%) Locust
6 5 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.87%) GitLab
6 5 (2.87%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.30%) Burp Suite
7 4 (2.30%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.30%) Mocha
7 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.72%) Gatling
8 3 (1.72%) Subversion
8 3 (1.72%) TestRail
9 2 (1.15%) ESLint
9 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
General
1 74 (42.53%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (32.18%) Social Skills
3 55 (31.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (18.39%) Finance
5 24 (13.79%) Legal
6 8 (4.60%) Banking
7 7 (4.02%) Law
8 4 (2.30%) Electronics
8 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.72%) Marketing
10 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Aviation
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (40.23%) Developer
2 55 (31.61%) Software Developer
3 22 (12.64%) Security Engineer
4 21 (12.07%) Lead
5 12 (6.90%) Senior
6 11 (6.32%) Analyst
7 10 (5.75%) Security Analyst
8 9 (5.17%) Risk Manager
9 8 (4.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Information Officer
9 8 (4.60%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Risk Officer
10 7 (4.02%) Security Manager
11 6 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Tester
12 5 (2.87%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Information Security Manager
12 5 (2.87%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (37.36%) .NET
2 63 (36.21%) Node.js
3 49 (28.16%) Pandas
4 24 (13.79%) YAML
5 17 (9.77%) REST
6 11 (6.32%) JSON
7 9 (5.17%) SOAP
8 8 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.02%) CSS
9 7 (4.02%) HTML
10 6 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.45%) Jest
10 6 (3.45%) React
10 6 (3.45%) RESTful
11 5 (2.87%) JWT
11 5 (2.87%) Laravel
11 5 (2.87%) OAuth
11 5 (2.87%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.16%) Cyberattack
2 28 (16.09%) Management Information System
3 22 (12.64%) Security Posture
4 9 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.72%) PKI
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.03%) Android
2 52 (29.89%) Linux
3 10 (5.75%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (70.69%) Agile
2 110 (63.22%) CI/CD
3 79 (45.40%) Secure Coding
4 57 (32.76%) Kanban
5 56 (32.18%) Software Engineering
6 55 (31.61%) Collaborative Working
7 54 (31.03%) Android Development
8 53 (30.46%) Design Patterns
8 53 (30.46%) OO
8 53 (30.46%) OOP
9 52 (29.89%) DevOps
10 51 (29.31%) Containerisation
10 51 (29.31%) Line Management
11 49 (28.16%) Mathematics
11 49 (28.16%) Statistics
12 47 (27.01%) Mentoring
13 45 (25.86%) Security Testing
13 45 (25.86%) Test Automation
14 44 (25.29%) Information Security
15 39 (22.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.08%) JavaScript
2 66 (37.93%) Python
3 64 (36.78%) Java
4 54 (31.03%) Go
5 53 (30.46%) C++
6 49 (28.16%) Rust
7 25 (14.37%) SQL
8 23 (13.22%) PowerShell
9 17 (9.77%) C#
10 7 (4.02%) R
11 5 (2.87%) PHP
12 4 (2.30%) Ruby
12 4 (2.30%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.15%) Bash
14 1 (0.57%) Swift
14 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.16%) DV Cleared
3 37 (21.26%) CISSP
4 31 (17.82%) CISM
5 30 (17.24%) Degree
6 26 (14.94%) CRISC
7 20 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (10.34%) Master's Degree
9 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared
10 10 (5.75%) ISTQB
11 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (2.87%) SANS
13 4 (2.30%) CEH
13 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (1.72%) GIAC
15 2 (1.15%) CCNA
15 2 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (40.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (27.59%) NIST
3 21 (12.07%) NCSC
4 20 (11.49%) SOC 2
5 16 (9.20%) GDPR
6 15 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (6.90%) PCI DSS
8 11 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (5.17%) QA
10 5 (2.87%) COBIT
11 4 (2.30%) GRC
12 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
12 3 (1.72%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (33.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) NFS
3 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 59 (33.91%) Kubernetes
2 58 (33.33%) Terraform
3 49 (28.16%) Ansible
4 5 (2.87%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.72%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.15%) Argo
6 2 (1.15%) Graylog
6 2 (1.15%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.57%) cPanel
7 1 (0.57%) Grafana
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Nessus
7 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.45%) Oracle
3 5 (2.87%) Databricks
3 5 (2.87%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.30%) Google
4 4 (2.30%) Splunk
5 2 (1.15%) Cisco
5 2 (1.15%) CyberSource
5 2 (1.15%) F5
5 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.15%) Mercator
5 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.57%) New Relic