OWASP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OWASP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OWASP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 574 571
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -45
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 190 154 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 107 76 228
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,809 £45,000 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £84,919 £92,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +25.93% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OWASP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +12 72 £70,000 -9.68% 10
North of England -2 47 £74,921 +30.30% 6
South West -17 37 £71,991 +51.56% 4
North West -27 32 £61,206 +36.01% 5
East of England -11 17 £65,000 -27.78% 3
Yorkshire +55 11 £79,842 -15.96% 1
West Midlands -10 8 £71,250 +18.75% 1
Midlands -37 8 £71,250 +18.75% 3
Scotland -81 7 £33,250 -46.96%
North East -15 4 £79,842 -7.43%
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 1
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 (2.63%) IIS
2 3 (1.58%) Apache
2 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.58%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 97 (51.05%) Azure
2 71 (37.37%) AWS
3 25 (13.16%) SaaS
4 23 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.21%) Serverless
6 7 (3.68%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (1.58%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (1.58%) GitHub
7 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.05%) PaaS
8 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.53%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.84%) Network Security
2 29 (15.26%) SD-WAN
2 29 (15.26%) WAN
3 16 (8.42%) Internet
4 11 (5.79%) Firewall
5 10 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.63%) VPN
7 3 (1.58%) Wireless
8 2 (1.05%) DNS
8 2 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.05%) VoIP
8 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.05%) MySQL
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.05%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (18.42%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.32%) NUnit
4 10 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.68%) Jasmine
5 7 (3.68%) Selenium
5 7 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.58%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.58%) GitLab
7 3 (1.58%) Gradle
7 3 (1.58%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.58%) Postman
8 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 51 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.89%) Finance
3 19 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (10.00%) Law
4 18 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.42%) Marketing
6 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.26%) Aerospace
7 10 (5.26%) Automotive
7 10 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.74%) Retail
9 4 (2.11%) Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 72 (37.89%) Architect
2 56 (29.47%) Security Architect
3 43 (22.63%) Lead
4 41 (21.58%) Developer
5 37 (19.47%) Senior
6 29 (15.26%) Lead Architect
7 23 (12.11%) Lead Security Architect
8 20 (10.53%) Software Developer
9 19 (10.00%) Security Manager
10 16 (8.42%) Technical Architect
11 13 (6.84%) .NET Developer
11 13 (6.84%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.79%) Analyst
12 11 (5.79%) Senior Architect
13 10 (5.26%) C# Developer
13 10 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (5.26%) Certification Manager
14 9 (4.74%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (4.74%) Consultant
14 9 (4.74%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.26%) .NET
2 29 (15.26%) React
3 20 (10.53%) ASP.NET
4 18 (9.47%) HTML
5 14 (7.37%) CSS
6 13 (6.84%) .NET Core
7 12 (6.32%) .NET Framework
8 10 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.26%) OpenID
8 10 (5.26%) REST
9 9 (4.74%) Entity Framework
9 9 (4.74%) HTML5
9 9 (4.74%) OAuth
10 8 (4.21%) RESTful
11 7 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.68%) JSON
12 6 (3.16%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.16%) SOAP
12 6 (3.16%) Spring
12 6 (3.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.74%) Management Information System
2 29 (15.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 23 (12.11%) Product Ownership
4 19 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 17 (8.95%) Mobile App
6 15 (7.89%) Cloud Native
7 13 (6.84%) IoT
8 11 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (4.74%) Data Centre
10 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.63%) Replication
12 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.58%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.58%) Operational Technology
14 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (1.05%) e-Learning
14 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
15 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Linux
2 8 (4.21%) Kali Linux
3 7 (3.68%) Debian
3 7 (3.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.84%) Agile
2 65 (34.21%) Application Security
3 60 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 52 (27.37%) Information Security
5 51 (26.84%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (26.32%) Secure Coding
7 39 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (20.53%) Security Architecture
8 38 (20.00%) DevOps
8 38 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 37 (19.47%) Computer Science
10 33 (17.37%) TDD
11 32 (16.84%) Identity Management
11 32 (16.84%) SDLC
12 31 (16.32%) Penetration Testing
13 30 (15.79%) Microservices
14 29 (15.26%) Mentoring
15 27 (14.21%) Vulnerability Management
16 26 (13.68%) Coaching
17 23 (12.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.21%) JavaScript
2 48 (25.26%) C#
3 30 (15.79%) SQL
4 27 (14.21%) Java
4 27 (14.21%) Python
5 21 (11.05%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.21%) Bash
7 7 (3.68%) Bicep
7 7 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.16%) C
8 6 (3.16%) R
8 6 (3.16%) Scala
9 4 (2.11%) Swift
9 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) Ada
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 59 (31.05%) CISSP
2 49 (25.79%) CISM
3 43 (22.63%) AWS Certification
4 39 (20.53%) Degree
5 38 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 34 (17.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 34 (17.89%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (17.37%) CCSP
8 29 (15.26%) CCSK
9 23 (12.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (5.26%) HNC
10 10 (5.26%) HND
11 9 (4.74%) DBS Check
11 9 (4.74%) OSCP
12 8 (4.21%) CEH
12 8 (4.21%) CISA
12 8 (4.21%) GIAC
12 8 (4.21%) GPEN
13 6 (3.16%) SANS
14 5 (2.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (33.68%) NIST
2 25 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (8.42%) GDPR
4 12 (6.32%) NCSC
5 11 (5.79%) PCI DSS
6 10 (5.26%) SLA
7 9 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 8 (4.21%) GRC
9 7 (3.68%) PMO
10 6 (3.16%) NIST 800
11 4 (2.11%) COBIT
11 4 (2.11%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (1.58%) ISO 22301
12 3 (1.58%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 49 (25.79%) Docker
2 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (25.26%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.26%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.79%) Terraform
4 9 (4.74%) Nessus
5 7 (3.68%) MIIS
6 6 (3.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (2.63%) Kibana
7 5 (2.63%) Suricata
8 3 (1.58%) Ansible
8 3 (1.58%) Nmap
9 2 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.74%) Qualys
3 5 (2.63%) Cisco
3 5 (2.63%) Juniper
3 5 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.63%) Splunk
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce