OWASP Jobs with Work from Home Options

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 499 461
Rank change year-on-year +72 -38 -75
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 169 166 444
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.42% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 141 110 327
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,965 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.45% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OWASP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OWASP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

OWASP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.55%) CMS
2 3 (1.78%) Apache
2 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 100 (59.17%) Azure
2 62 (36.69%) AWS
3 26 (15.38%) SaaS
4 22 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.51%) Serverless
6 10 (5.92%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.73%) IaaS
7 8 (4.73%) PaaS
8 7 (4.14%) Pulumi
9 6 (3.55%) Azure Service Fabric
9 6 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.37%) Azure API Management
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.18%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (1.18%) GCP
12 2 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (19.53%) SD-WAN
1 33 (19.53%) WAN
2 11 (6.51%) Network Security
3 9 (5.33%) Wireless
4 6 (3.55%) Firewall
5 2 (1.18%) HTTP
5 2 (1.18%) IPv4
6 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.24%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.37%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.59%) Big Data
8 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.59%) OLTP
8 1 (0.59%) Redis
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Git
2 17 (10.06%) Oracle APEX
3 16 (9.47%) Visual Studio
4 15 (8.88%) NUnit
5 10 (5.92%) Selenium
6 8 (4.73%) Burp Suite
6 8 (4.73%) Metasploit
7 7 (4.14%) Jasmine
7 7 (4.14%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.14%) MSTest
7 7 (4.14%) Postman
7 7 (4.14%) SoapUI
7 7 (4.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (4.14%) TeamCity
7 7 (4.14%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (2.37%) JMeter
8 4 (2.37%) Moq
8 4 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.78%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 54 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.79%) Finance
3 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.51%) Retail
5 6 (3.55%) Banking
5 6 (3.55%) Marketing
5 6 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Welsh Language
7 3 (1.78%) Law
7 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Police
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (37.28%) Architect
2 52 (30.77%) Senior
3 51 (30.18%) Lead
4 49 (28.99%) Developer
5 44 (26.04%) Security Architect
6 27 (15.98%) Lead Architect
6 27 (15.98%) Lead Security Architect
7 22 (13.02%) Senior Developer
8 18 (10.65%) .NET Developer
9 17 (10.06%) Technical Architect
10 14 (8.28%) Lead Developer
11 13 (7.69%) Lead .NET Developer
12 11 (6.51%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (5.92%) Software Developer
14 9 (5.33%) Penetration Tester
14 9 (5.33%) Tester
15 8 (4.73%) .NET Software Developer
15 8 (4.73%) Azure Developer
16 7 (4.14%) AWS Developer
16 7 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.85%) .NET
2 38 (22.49%) REST
3 30 (17.75%) HTML
4 28 (16.57%) CSS
4 28 (16.57%) JSON
5 21 (12.43%) React
6 17 (10.06%) jQuery
7 16 (9.47%) ASP.NET
7 16 (9.47%) SOAP
8 15 (8.88%) .NET Framework
9 14 (8.28%) Vue
10 13 (7.69%) Web Services
11 12 (7.10%) .NET Core
11 12 (7.10%) HTML5
12 11 (6.51%) XML
13 10 (5.92%) Entity Framework
14 9 (5.33%) OpenID
15 8 (4.73%) AngularJS
15 8 (4.73%) ARM Templates
15 8 (4.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.71%) Management Information System
2 33 (19.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 20 (11.83%) IoT
4 17 (10.06%) Cloud Native
4 17 (10.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.78%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.78%) W3C
8 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Unix
2 3 (1.78%) Kali Linux
2 3 (1.78%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.01%) Agile
2 66 (39.05%) Information Security
3 65 (38.46%) Application Security
4 62 (36.69%) CI/CD
5 53 (31.36%) Mentoring
6 47 (27.81%) Microservices
6 47 (27.81%) Security Architecture
7 46 (27.22%) Cybersecurity
8 45 (26.63%) Secure Coding
9 38 (22.49%) TDD
10 36 (21.30%) Coaching
11 35 (20.71%) Identity Management
12 33 (19.53%) Test Automation
13 28 (16.57%) SDLC
14 26 (15.38%) DevOps
15 21 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (12.43%) SOLID
16 20 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (11.83%) Full Stack Development
16 20 (11.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.01%) JavaScript
2 53 (31.36%) SQL
3 46 (27.22%) C#
4 25 (14.79%) Python
5 21 (12.43%) Java
6 17 (10.06%) PL/SQL
7 13 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.14%) Bicep
8 7 (4.14%) C
9 6 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.55%) XPath
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.59%) Ada
11 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (30.77%) CISSP
2 45 (26.63%) CISM
3 43 (25.44%) AWS Certification
4 41 (24.26%) Azure Certification
5 37 (21.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 37 (21.89%) CCSP
5 37 (21.89%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (19.53%) CCSK
7 13 (7.69%) OSCP
8 12 (7.10%) Degree
8 12 (7.10%) GIAC
9 11 (6.51%) DBS Check
10 9 (5.33%) CEH
10 9 (5.33%) CREST Certified
11 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Cyber Scheme
12 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
12 6 (3.55%) SANS
12 6 (3.55%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (36.09%) NIST
2 11 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.92%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 9 (5.33%) GRC
5 8 (4.73%) COBIT
6 6 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (3.55%) GDPR
6 6 (3.55%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (2.96%) NCSC
8 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.78%) WCAG
10 2 (1.18%) ISO 31000
10 2 (1.18%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 60 (35.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (29.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (19.53%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (4.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 8 (4.73%) Nmap
3 8 (4.73%) Terraform
4 7 (4.14%) MIIS
5 6 (3.55%) Grafana
6 5 (2.96%) Kibana
6 5 (2.96%) Nessus
7 2 (1.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.61%) Oracle
3 5 (2.96%) Qualys
4 2 (1.18%) Google
4 2 (1.18%) IBM
4 2 (1.18%) Splunk