OWASP Contracts in the City of London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 170 185
Rank change year-on-year +51 +15 -51
Contract jobs citing OWASP 8 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £513 £516 £617
25th Percentile £563 £563 £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £690
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.80% +45.26%
75th Percentile £660 £800 £706
90th Percentile £680 £808 £718
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £680
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% +43.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 3,346 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,259 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £806 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (12.50%) AppScan
3 1 (12.50%) Darcs
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Mercurial
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) RStudio
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CBDC
1 1 (12.50%) Digital Currency
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) OOP
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SANS
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Graylog
4 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
4 1 (12.50%) Kibana
4 1 (12.50%) logstash
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Veracode