OWASP Contracts in Scotland

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 157 160
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -27
Contract jobs citing OWASP 10 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.45% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.23% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £571 £446 £475
25th Percentile £611 £516 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £545 £558
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -2.24% +19.06%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £585
90th Percentile £681 £660 £611
UK median daily rate £611 £556 £588
% change year-on-year +9.89% -5.32% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Edinburgh +42 7 £623 +15.60%
Glasgow +8 3 £650 -7.14%
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Maven
2 6 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) Gradle
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Site Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (10.00%) Java EE
1 1 (10.00%) JPA
1 1 (10.00%) JSP
1 1 (10.00%) JSTL
1 1 (10.00%) OpenJDK
1 1 (10.00%) Servlets
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) STL
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Application Security
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (20.00%) Service Design
7 1 (10.00%) Coaching
7 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) Groovy
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) Ruby
1 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) VMware