OWASP Jobs in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 254 266
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -25
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 32 36 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.49% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 60
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £38,325
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,094 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £44,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -14.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £84,919 £48,438 £66,563
90th Percentile - £70,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +25.93% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,257 7,359 9,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.84% 95.41% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,258 3,859 5,300
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,225 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Manchester +15 24 £61,206 +36.01% 7
Lancashire -7 7 £79,842 +14.06% 1
Merseyside +7 1 £45,000 +2.86% 2
OWASP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
1 22 (68.75%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) SD-WAN
1 15 (46.88%) WAN
2 3 (9.38%) Wireless
3 2 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Burp Suite
2 3 (9.38%) Metasploit
2 3 (9.38%) NUnit
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Moq
4 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Architect
2 15 (46.88%) Security Architect
3 9 (28.13%) Lead
3 9 (28.13%) Lead Architect
3 9 (28.13%) Lead Security Architect
4 8 (25.00%) Senior
5 6 (18.75%) Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Architect
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Security Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Penetration Tester
6 3 (9.38%) Security Specialist
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Tester
7 2 (6.25%) Information Security Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Information Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML5
3 1 (3.13%) jQuery
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (3.13%) Vue
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Management Information System
2 15 (46.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) IoT
3 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 3 (9.38%) Operational Technology
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Information Security
2 17 (53.13%) Application Security
3 15 (46.88%) Identity Management
3 15 (46.88%) Secure Coding
3 15 (46.88%) Security Architecture
4 11 (34.38%) Coaching
5 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
6 9 (28.13%) Security Testing
6 9 (28.13%) TDD
7 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 4 (12.50%) SOLID
9 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Ada
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 16 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (50.00%) CISSP
2 15 (46.88%) Azure Certification
2 15 (46.88%) CCSK
2 15 (46.88%) CCSP
2 15 (46.88%) CISM
3 5 (15.63%) OSCP
4 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) CREST Certified
4 3 (9.38%) OSCE
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) CCA
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (46.88%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
1 15 (46.88%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (9.38%) Nessus
2 3 (9.38%) Nmap
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Qualys