OWASP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 580 609 555
Rank change year-on-year +29 -54 -44
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 185 162 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.29% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 103 76 224
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,809 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £84,919 £92,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,547 £95,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +26.92% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK excluding London 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
South East +36 67 £70,000 -6.67% 31
North of England +26 47 £74,921 +36.22% 13
South West +8 38 £70,996 -33.27% 5
North West -3 32 £61,206 +36.39% 11
East of England +8 17 £65,000 -27.78% 4
Yorkshire +68 11 £79,842 -15.96% 1
West Midlands +8 7 £77,500 +31.91%
Midlands -9 7 £77,500 +31.91% 1
Scotland -72 7 £33,250 -27.32% 1
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 2
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.70%) IIS
2 3 (1.62%) Apache
2 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.62%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 93 (50.27%) Azure
2 70 (37.84%) AWS
3 23 (12.43%) SaaS
4 20 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.32%) Serverless
6 7 (3.78%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.62%) GitHub
7 3 (1.62%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.08%) PaaS
8 2 (1.08%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.54%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.30%) Network Security
2 29 (15.68%) SD-WAN
2 29 (15.68%) WAN
3 16 (8.65%) Internet
4 11 (5.95%) Firewall
5 10 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.70%) VPN
7 3 (1.62%) Wireless
8 2 (1.08%) DNS
8 2 (1.08%) SSL
8 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.08%) VoIP
8 2 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.97%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.08%) Power BI
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (18.92%) Git
2 12 (6.49%) NUnit
3 10 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.41%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.78%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.78%) Selenium
4 7 (3.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.78%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.62%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.62%) GitLab
6 3 (1.62%) Gradle
6 3 (1.62%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) Maven
8 1 (0.54%) Moq
General
1 50 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.46%) Finance
3 18 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (9.73%) Law
4 16 (8.65%) Marketing
5 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 10 (5.41%) Automotive
6 10 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.86%) Retail
8 4 (2.16%) Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 72 (38.92%) Architect
2 56 (30.27%) Security Architect
3 44 (23.78%) Lead
4 42 (22.70%) Developer
5 40 (21.62%) Senior
6 29 (15.68%) Lead Architect
7 23 (12.43%) Lead Security Architect
8 21 (11.35%) Software Developer
9 19 (10.27%) Security Manager
10 16 (8.65%) Technical Architect
11 14 (7.57%) Senior Developer
12 13 (7.03%) .NET Developer
13 11 (5.95%) C# Developer
13 11 (5.95%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (5.95%) Senior Architect
14 10 (5.41%) Certification Manager
15 9 (4.86%) .NET Software Developer
15 9 (4.86%) Consultant
15 9 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 9 (4.86%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.41%) .NET
2 31 (16.76%) React
3 18 (9.73%) HTML
4 17 (9.19%) ASP.NET
5 14 (7.57%) CSS
6 13 (7.03%) .NET Core
7 12 (6.49%) .NET Framework
8 10 (5.41%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.86%) Entity Framework
9 9 (4.86%) HTML5
9 9 (4.86%) OpenID
10 8 (4.32%) OAuth
10 8 (4.32%) RESTful
11 7 (3.78%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.78%) JSON
11 7 (3.78%) REST
12 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.24%) Spring
12 6 (3.24%) Vue
12 6 (3.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.95%) Management Information System
2 29 (15.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 23 (12.43%) Product Ownership
4 19 (10.27%) Security Posture
5 17 (9.19%) Mobile App
6 15 (8.11%) Cloud Native
7 13 (7.03%) IoT
8 11 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (4.86%) Data Centre
10 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.70%) Replication
12 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.62%) Operational Technology
14 2 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
14 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
15 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
15 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Linux
2 8 (4.32%) Kali Linux
3 7 (3.78%) Debian
3 7 (3.78%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.38%) Agile
2 63 (34.05%) Application Security
3 59 (31.89%) CI/CD
4 51 (27.57%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (26.49%) Information Security
6 47 (25.41%) Secure Coding
7 39 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.08%) Security Architecture
8 38 (20.54%) Computer Science
8 38 (20.54%) Test Automation
9 36 (19.46%) TDD
10 34 (18.38%) SDLC
11 33 (17.84%) DevOps
12 31 (16.76%) Identity Management
12 31 (16.76%) Microservices
13 29 (15.68%) Mentoring
13 29 (15.68%) Penetration Testing
13 29 (15.68%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (14.05%) Coaching
15 23 (12.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.68%) JavaScript
2 46 (24.86%) C#
3 33 (17.84%) SQL
4 30 (16.22%) Java
5 25 (13.51%) Python
6 22 (11.89%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.32%) Bash
8 7 (3.78%) Bicep
8 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.24%) C
9 6 (3.24%) R
9 6 (3.24%) Scala
10 4 (2.16%) Swift
10 4 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.08%) PHP
12 2 (1.08%) Ruby
13 1 (0.54%) Ada
13 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 58 (31.35%) CISSP
2 48 (25.95%) CISM
3 43 (23.24%) AWS Certification
4 39 (21.08%) Degree
5 38 (20.54%) Azure Certification
6 34 (18.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 34 (18.38%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (17.84%) CCSP
8 29 (15.68%) CCSK
9 24 (12.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (5.95%) DBS Check
11 10 (5.41%) HNC
11 10 (5.41%) HND
12 9 (4.86%) OSCP
13 8 (4.32%) CEH
13 8 (4.32%) GIAC
13 8 (4.32%) GPEN
14 7 (3.78%) CISA
15 6 (3.24%) SANS
16 5 (2.70%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (35.14%) NIST
2 22 (11.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (8.11%) GDPR
5 10 (5.41%) NCSC
5 10 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 10 (5.41%) SLA
6 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 8 (4.32%) GRC
8 7 (3.78%) PMO
9 6 (3.24%) NIST 800
10 4 (2.16%) COBIT
11 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.54%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 50 (27.03%) Docker
2 7 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.68%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.95%) Terraform
4 9 (4.86%) Nessus
5 7 (3.78%) MIIS
6 6 (3.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (2.70%) Kibana
7 5 (2.70%) Suricata
8 3 (1.62%) Ansible
8 3 (1.62%) Nmap
9 2 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.86%) Qualys
3 5 (2.70%) Cisco
3 5 (2.70%) Juniper
3 5 (2.70%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.70%) Splunk
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) Tanium