OWASP Contracts in Yorkshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 105 141
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 12 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.72% 0.88% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.97% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 6
10th Percentile £483 £440 £413
25th Percentile £524 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £588 £603 £595
90th Percentile £593 £633 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.93% +10.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,443 2,071 2,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.51% 90.99% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,375 1,762
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £554
90th Percentile £650 £700 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 63 80
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.35% -8.62%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.57 £22.81
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Yorkshire +33 9 £550 +29.41% 2
South Yorkshire -16 3 £575 +9.52%
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) GitHub
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (41.67%) Cloudflare
4 4 (33.33%) Akamai
4 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) AppScan
2 4 (33.33%) Burp Suite
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Change Control
4 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) RAD
5 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bash
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Graylog
2 4 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Nessus
2 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (33.33%) WebInspect
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 4 (33.33%) F5
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
1 4 (33.33%) Veracode
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Imperva