OWASP Contracts in the North of England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 176 200
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -16
Contract jobs citing OWASP 17 30 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 35
10th Percentile £483 - £425
25th Percentile £498 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £613
90th Percentile £598 £638 £713
England median daily rate £575 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.93% +10.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,961 5,179 6,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.65% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,405 3,586 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 204 268
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +50.87% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.82
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +11 11 £565 +7.62% 1
North West +22 6 £575 -4.17% 5
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (29.41%) Cloudflare
5 4 (23.53%) Akamai
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Burp Suite
3 4 (23.53%) AppScan
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 1 (5.88%) Automotive
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Site Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (29.41%) Information Security
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Change Control
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) RAD
5 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (17.65%) SIEM
6 2 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Records Management
7 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (5.88%) Threat Detection
7 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CCNP
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (29.41%) NIST
1 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
2 4 (23.53%) QA
3 3 (17.65%) GRC
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) HP Fortify
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Grafana
3 4 (23.53%) Graylog
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Nessus
3 4 (23.53%) Progress Chef
3 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
3 4 (23.53%) Puppet
3 4 (23.53%) WebInspect
4 1 (5.88%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Checkmarx
1 4 (23.53%) F5
1 4 (23.53%) Splunk
1 4 (23.53%) Veracode
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.88%) Darktrace
3 1 (5.88%) Imperva
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7