OWASP Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring OWASP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 104 137
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 +71
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 4 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% 0.067% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.077% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £53,900 - £42,750
25th Percentile £54,125 £95,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £100,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% +70.21% +6.82%
75th Percentile £64,250 £105,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £64,700 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £59,000 £100,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -41.00% +70.21% +6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,491 1,303 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.10% 87.51% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 871 654 1,388
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,599 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

OWASP
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OWASP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OWASP

OWASP
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Pontefract - 2 £58,250 -
Leeds -14 1 - -
Bradford - 1 £65,000 -
OWASP
Yorkshire

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Snyk
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) GRC
3 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (25.00%) New Relic
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce