OWASP Contracts in Leeds

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +31 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.13% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £483 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - -
75th Percentile £584 £450 -
90th Percentile £595 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £425 £325
% change year-on-year +29.41% +30.77% -44.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 690 1,214 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.68% 91.14% 92.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 874 1,093
10th Percentile £300 £383 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 21
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £12.30 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +97.90% +7.14%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £27.25
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -53.59% +53.06% -21.14%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Leeds over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Cloudflare
3 4 (44.44%) Akamai
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) AppScan
1 4 (44.44%) Burp Suite
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Site Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Change Control
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) RAD
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Graylog
2 4 (44.44%) HP Fortify
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Nessus
2 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
2 4 (44.44%) Puppet
2 4 (44.44%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Checkmarx
1 4 (44.44%) F5
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
1 4 (44.44%) Veracode
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva