OWASP Jobs in the West Midlands

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 246 257
Rank change year-on-year +59 +11 +6
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 10 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £47,500 - £43,769
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +31.91% +17.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £80,313
90th Percentile - - £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +24.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Staffordshire - 5 £70,000 - 10
Birmingham +43 4 £56,250 -27.42% 9
Warwickshire - 1 - -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 5 (50.00%) IT Development Manager
1 5 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (20.00%) Information Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (50.00%) Laravel
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Jest
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Android
2 5 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Secure Coding
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Android Development
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) iOS Development
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (50.00%) Workflow
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) OOP
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Information Security
6 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle