OWASP Job Trends in West Wales

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.91% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £47,250 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £71,289 - £72,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 53 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 69.51% 85.48% 74.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 26 152
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £53,988
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in West Wales

OWASP
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in West Wales over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for OWASP in West Wales

OWASP
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Swansea - 3 £72,500 - 3
OWASP
Wales

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Pa11y
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) AWS SAM
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) WCAG
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OneLogin
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle