OWASP Jobs with Work from Home Options

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 492 484
Rank change year-on-year +81 -8 -77
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 176 148 465
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.41% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 146 101 322
10th Percentile £51,625 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £84,919 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 £100,000
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OWASP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OWASP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

OWASP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.41%) CMS
2 3 (1.70%) Apache
2 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 103 (58.52%) Azure
2 67 (38.07%) AWS
3 29 (16.48%) SaaS
4 24 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.25%) Serverless
6 10 (5.68%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.11%) PaaS
8 8 (4.55%) IaaS
9 7 (3.98%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.41%) Azure Service Fabric
10 6 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.27%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.27%) GCP
13 3 (1.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (1.70%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 33 (18.75%) SD-WAN
1 33 (18.75%) WAN
2 11 (6.25%) Network Security
2 11 (6.25%) Wireless
3 6 (3.41%) Firewall
4 2 (1.14%) HTTP
4 2 (1.14%) SSH
4 2 (1.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.80%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.27%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.14%) MySQL
8 1 (0.57%) Big Data
8 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.57%) OLTP
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (23.30%) Git
2 17 (9.66%) Oracle APEX
3 16 (9.09%) NUnit
3 16 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 11 (6.25%) Burp Suite
4 11 (6.25%) Metasploit
5 10 (5.68%) Selenium
6 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.98%) Jasmine
7 7 (3.98%) Postman
7 7 (3.98%) SoapUI
7 7 (3.98%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (3.98%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (3.41%) MSTest
9 4 (2.27%) JMeter
9 4 (2.27%) Moq
9 4 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.70%) GitLab
10 3 (1.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.07%) Finance
3 14 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.25%) Retail
5 8 (4.55%) Marketing
6 6 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Banking
7 4 (2.27%) Law
7 4 (2.27%) Welsh Language
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (36.36%) Architect
2 53 (30.11%) Senior
3 49 (27.84%) Lead
4 48 (27.27%) Developer
5 45 (25.57%) Security Architect
6 27 (15.34%) Lead Architect
6 27 (15.34%) Lead Security Architect
7 22 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.66%) .NET Developer
8 17 (9.66%) Technical Architect
9 13 (7.39%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Lead .NET Developer
11 11 (6.25%) Analyst
12 10 (5.68%) Penetration Tester
12 10 (5.68%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.68%) Tester
13 9 (5.11%) Full Stack Developer
14 8 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
14 8 (4.55%) Azure Developer
14 8 (4.55%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.16%) .NET
1 39 (22.16%) REST
2 28 (15.91%) CSS
2 28 (15.91%) HTML
2 28 (15.91%) JSON
3 17 (9.66%) jQuery
3 17 (9.66%) React
4 16 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 16 (9.09%) SOAP
5 15 (8.52%) .NET Framework
6 13 (7.39%) Web Services
7 12 (6.82%) .NET Core
7 12 (6.82%) Vue
8 11 (6.25%) XML
9 10 (5.68%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.68%) HTML5
9 10 (5.68%) OpenID
10 8 (4.55%) ARM Templates
10 8 (4.55%) RESTful
11 7 (3.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 33 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 22 (12.50%) IoT
3 17 (9.66%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.70%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.70%) W3C
8 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Kali Linux
2 4 (2.27%) Unix
3 3 (1.70%) Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.91%) Agile
2 66 (37.50%) Information Security
3 65 (36.93%) Application Security
4 63 (35.80%) CI/CD
5 52 (29.55%) Mentoring
6 49 (27.84%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (26.70%) Security Architecture
8 45 (25.57%) Microservices
8 45 (25.57%) Secure Coding
9 38 (21.59%) TDD
10 36 (20.45%) Identity Management
11 35 (19.89%) Coaching
12 34 (19.32%) Test Automation
13 28 (15.91%) DevOps
14 26 (14.77%) SDLC
15 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (12.50%) Cloud Security
17 21 (11.93%) Penetration Testing
17 21 (11.93%) Security Testing
17 21 (11.93%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.77%) JavaScript
2 51 (28.98%) SQL
3 45 (25.57%) C#
4 30 (17.05%) Python
5 19 (10.80%) Java
6 17 (9.66%) PL/SQL
7 14 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.98%) Bicep
8 7 (3.98%) C
9 6 (3.41%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.41%) XPath
10 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.14%) PHP
11 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) Ada
Qualifications
1 53 (30.11%) CISSP
2 46 (26.14%) CISM
3 43 (24.43%) AWS Certification
4 41 (23.30%) Azure Certification
5 37 (21.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 37 (21.02%) CCSP
5 37 (21.02%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (18.75%) CCSK
7 15 (8.52%) OSCP
8 14 (7.95%) Degree
9 12 (6.82%) GIAC
10 11 (6.25%) CREST Certified
11 9 (5.11%) CEH
11 9 (5.11%) DBS Check
12 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (3.98%) ISTQB
13 6 (3.41%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (3.41%) Cyber Scheme
13 6 (3.41%) Master's Degree
13 6 (3.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (35.80%) NIST
2 13 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
4 9 (5.11%) GRC
5 8 (4.55%) COBIT
6 7 (3.98%) GDPR
7 6 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (3.41%) NCSC
7 6 (3.41%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.70%) WCAG
10 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.14%) ISO 31000
10 2 (1.14%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 60 (34.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 33 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (6.25%) Nmap
4 10 (5.68%) Terraform
5 8 (4.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 7 (3.98%) MIIS
6 7 (3.98%) Nessus
7 6 (3.41%) Grafana
8 5 (2.84%) Kibana
9 2 (1.14%) Ansible
9 2 (1.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.07%) Oracle
3 7 (3.98%) Qualys
4 4 (2.27%) Google
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) Splunk