OWASP Job Trends in Wales

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.059% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% - 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £72,500
75th Percentile £74,066 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% - -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,165 473 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.21% 87.43% 75.35%
Number of salaries quoted 769 279 1,061
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,843 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,663 £37,170 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,398 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +14.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Wales

OWASP
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OWASP

OWASP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 Wales - 1 £70,079 -
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform