OWASP Contracts in Birmingham

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring OWASP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OWASP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% - 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £602 - £540
25th Percentile £605 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.72%
75th Percentile £615 - £644
90th Percentile £618 - £670
West Midlands median daily rate £710 - £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

OWASP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Birmingham

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Imperva