OWASP Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 245 280
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 -55
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 8 8 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.093% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 15
10th Percentile £62,525 £45,016 £37,200
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £91,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +25.93% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,880 5,588 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.26% 96.69% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,789 3,127 4,852
10th Percentile £26,700 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £39,967 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the West Midlands

OWASP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham -15 8 £71,250 +29.55% 1
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Security Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Information Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) API Design
2 3 (37.50%) Application Security
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Coaching
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) SOLID
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISM
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (37.50%) CCSK
2 3 (37.50%) CCSP
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft