OWASP Jobs in England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 580 534
Rank change year-on-year +18 -46 -55
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 285 357 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.43% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 198 187 446
10th Percentile £52,431 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £84,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.44% -3.57%
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,875 £117,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +18.52% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in England.

Salary trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in England

OWASP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
London +53 105 £70,000 -17.65% 27
South East +30 68 £70,000 -6.67% 16
North of England +33 47 £74,921 +49.84% 15
South West -5 37 £71,991 -24.22% 4
North West 0 32 £61,206 +36.01% 10
East of England -4 17 £65,000 -27.78% 3
Yorkshire +66 11 £79,842 -15.96% 4
West Midlands +10 7 £77,500 +31.91%
Midlands -5 7 £77,500 +31.91% 1
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.91%) CMS
2 8 (2.81%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) EPiServer
4 5 (1.75%) IIS
5 3 (1.05%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 136 (47.72%) Azure
2 87 (30.53%) AWS
3 32 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (10.53%) SaaS
5 17 (5.96%) Serverless
6 9 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.46%) Pulumi
9 6 (2.11%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.75%) PaaS
11 4 (1.40%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.40%) IaaS
12 3 (1.05%) GCP
12 3 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.28%) Network Security
2 33 (11.58%) SD-WAN
2 33 (11.58%) WAN
3 24 (8.42%) Firewall
4 18 (6.32%) Internet
5 14 (4.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 13 (4.56%) Wireless
7 6 (2.11%) VPN
8 5 (1.75%) VoIP
9 2 (0.70%) DNS
9 2 (0.70%) SSL
9 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.75%) Power BI
4 3 (1.05%) Redis
4 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.35%) Big Data
6 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.35%) MySQL
6 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.35%) OLTP
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (17.54%) Git
2 25 (8.77%) Visual Studio
3 17 (5.96%) Oracle APEX
4 15 (5.26%) NUnit
5 14 (4.91%) Burp Suite
6 13 (4.56%) Metasploit
7 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
8 8 (2.81%) JIRA
8 8 (2.81%) Selenium
9 7 (2.46%) Jasmine
9 7 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (2.46%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.46%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.05%) GitLab
11 3 (1.05%) MSTest
12 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.70%) Gradle
12 2 (0.70%) Moq
General
1 75 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.51%) Finance
3 33 (11.58%) Marketing
4 26 (9.12%) Law
5 22 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.91%) Banking
9 11 (3.86%) Retail
10 10 (3.51%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.51%) Automotive
10 10 (3.51%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.81%) Legal
12 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
13 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Police
14 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 88 (30.88%) Senior
2 85 (29.82%) Architect
3 68 (23.86%) Developer
4 61 (21.40%) Security Architect
5 54 (18.95%) Lead
6 34 (11.93%) Security Manager
6 34 (11.93%) Senior Developer
7 33 (11.58%) Lead Architect
8 27 (9.47%) Lead Security Architect
9 23 (8.07%) Analyst
9 23 (8.07%) Software Developer
10 22 (7.72%) Technical Architect
11 21 (7.37%) .NET Developer
11 21 (7.37%) Security Analyst
12 15 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (4.91%) Senior Security Analyst
14 12 (4.21%) Penetration Tester
14 12 (4.21%) Tester
15 11 (3.86%) C# Developer
15 11 (3.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.16%) .NET
2 48 (16.84%) REST
3 37 (12.98%) JSON
3 37 (12.98%) React
4 36 (12.63%) HTML
5 30 (10.53%) ASP.NET
5 30 (10.53%) CSS
6 23 (8.07%) .NET Framework
7 19 (6.67%) Web Services
8 18 (6.32%) jQuery
9 15 (5.26%) SOAP
10 14 (4.91%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.91%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.91%) OAuth
11 13 (4.56%) Spring
11 13 (4.56%) XML
12 12 (4.21%) Node.js
12 12 (4.21%) XSLT
13 11 (3.86%) OpenID
14 10 (3.51%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.70%) Management Information System
2 34 (11.93%) IoT
3 33 (11.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 26 (9.12%) Product Ownership
5 23 (8.07%) Mobile App
6 21 (7.37%) Cloud Native
7 20 (7.02%) Security Posture
8 12 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (3.16%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.81%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.75%) Replication
12 4 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.70%) e-Learning
14 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.21%) Kali Linux
2 11 (3.86%) Linux
3 7 (2.46%) Debian
3 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.79%) Agile
2 93 (32.63%) Application Security
3 85 (29.82%) Information Security
4 78 (27.37%) CI/CD
5 77 (27.02%) Cybersecurity
6 58 (20.35%) Secure Coding
7 56 (19.65%) Mentoring
8 54 (18.95%) DevOps
9 53 (18.60%) Security Architecture
10 50 (17.54%) Penetration Testing
11 49 (17.19%) Microservices
11 49 (17.19%) Vulnerability Management
12 47 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (16.14%) TDD
14 45 (15.79%) Test Automation
15 39 (13.68%) DevSecOps
16 38 (13.33%) Computer Science
17 37 (12.98%) Software Engineering
18 36 (12.63%) SDLC
19 35 (12.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (32.63%) JavaScript
2 68 (23.86%) C#
3 64 (22.46%) SQL
4 48 (16.84%) Python
5 39 (13.68%) Java
6 24 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.96%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.61%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.21%) C
9 12 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.21%) XPath
10 9 (3.16%) Bash
11 7 (2.46%) Bicep
12 6 (2.11%) R
12 6 (2.11%) Scala
13 4 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.40%) Swift
14 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (27.02%) CISSP
2 59 (20.70%) CISM
3 49 (17.19%) AWS Certification
4 45 (15.79%) Azure Certification
5 40 (14.04%) Degree
6 39 (13.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 38 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (12.98%) CCSP
9 33 (11.58%) CCSK
10 24 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (7.72%) OSCP
12 16 (5.61%) CISA
12 16 (5.61%) CREST Certified
13 14 (4.91%) CEH
14 13 (4.56%) CompTIA CySA+
15 11 (3.86%) DBS Check
16 10 (3.51%) HNC
16 10 (3.51%) HND
17 9 (3.16%) GIAC
18 8 (2.81%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (28.07%) NIST
2 36 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (8.77%) PCI DSS
4 20 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (5.26%) GRC
6 14 (4.91%) GDPR
7 13 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (4.21%) NCSC
9 10 (3.51%) SLA
10 9 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (2.46%) PMO
12 6 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (2.11%) NIST 800
13 4 (1.40%) COBIT
13 4 (1.40%) ISO 31000
14 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.70%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.70%) ISO 9000
16 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.58%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (4.91%) Nmap
4 13 (4.56%) Nessus
5 12 (4.21%) Terraform
6 7 (2.46%) MIIS
7 6 (2.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (1.75%) Suricata
9 3 (1.05%) Kibana
10 2 (0.70%) Ansible
10 2 (0.70%) Grafana
10 2 (0.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.67%) Oracle
3 17 (5.96%) Qualys
4 7 (2.46%) Splunk
5 5 (1.75%) Cisco
5 5 (1.75%) Juniper
5 5 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.70%) Google
6 2 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) CA
7 1 (0.35%) VMware