The first table below looks at the demand for OWASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OWASP over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.232% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.348% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £385
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
575 721 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.78% 63.36% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 269 307
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OWASP
Berkshire

OWASP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OWASP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading OWASP Jobs Demand Trend

OWASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing OWASP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OWASP.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Velocity
2 1 (50.00%) FreeMarker
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jetty
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management

OWASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing OWASP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OWASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Velocity
1 1 (50.00%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS