OWASP Jobs in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 264 259 308
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 -34
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 37 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 9
10th Percentile £49,450 £45,000 £34,100
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £95,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.22% +80.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,910 £130,347 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £135,693 £93,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £84,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +24.44% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,925 6,357 8,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.59% 94.63% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,692 3,502 5,073
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the South West 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
Bristol +19 20 £71,991 -38.87% 1
Devon - 8 - - 1
Dorset -21 7 £52,500 -
Somerset +4 1 £65,000 - 2
Gloucestershire -19 1 £40,000 -11.11% 1
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Retail
4 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (16.22%) Law
5 6 (16.22%) Marketing
6 4 (10.81%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Lead
3 7 (18.92%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Lead Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Software Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Architect
6 4 (10.81%) iOS Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Security Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Security Specialist
6 4 (10.81%) Senior iOS Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Java Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) .NET
2 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.81%) JSON
2 4 (10.81%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) Spring
3 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
3 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 3 (8.11%) SOAP
3 3 (8.11%) WCF
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) Blazor
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Memcached
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OpenID
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.22%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.51%) Replication
4 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Debian
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
1 7 (18.92%) Ubuntu
2 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) Cloud Security
3 13 (35.14%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
4 12 (32.43%) Decision-Making
4 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
5 11 (29.73%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (29.73%) Design Patterns
6 10 (27.03%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (27.03%) Release Management
7 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps
8 8 (21.62%) B2B
8 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 8 (21.62%) Validation
9 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
9 7 (18.92%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Java
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) Bash
4 6 (16.22%) C
4 6 (16.22%) R
4 6 (16.22%) Scala
5 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.81%) C#
6 4 (10.81%) Swift
7 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) CISSP
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 12 (32.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (24.32%) CISM
4 8 (21.62%) AWS Certification
4 8 (21.62%) CEH
5 6 (16.22%) SANS
6 5 (13.51%) CISA
6 5 (13.51%) CRISC
7 4 (10.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (10.81%) CCSP
7 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (10.81%) GSEC
7 4 (10.81%) ISSAP
7 4 (10.81%) OSCP
8 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) NIST
2 9 (24.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (18.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (18.92%) PMO
4 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft