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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OWASP 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.21% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £420 - £533
25th Percentile £436 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £575
75th Percentile £491 - £594
90th Percentile £646 - £598
West Midlands median daily rate £800 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 571 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.37% 81.46% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 391 481
10th Percentile £166 £208 £270
25th Percentile £358 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 27
10th Percentile - £14.60 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £19.37
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.41% +47.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £81.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.90% -23.64% +63.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 (85.71%) Akamai
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Development Director
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Application Security
1 6 (85.71%) DevSecOps
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Ethical Hacking
3 4 (57.14%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
6 1 (14.29%) Business Development
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) F5
2 5 (71.43%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft