OWASP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 123 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +61
Contract jobs citing OWASP 5 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £442 £573 £423
25th Percentile £479 £588 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile £691 £737 £683
90th Percentile £786 £797 £721
London median daily rate £550 £700 £620
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.90% +7.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,801 2,152 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.82% 91.93% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,343 1,760
10th Percentile £340 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £52.50 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
% change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Central London

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Central London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Central London

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
City of London +3 5 £563 -10.00%
OWASP
London

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (40.00%) Firebase
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Snyk
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Ant
3 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) JWT
2 2 (40.00%) Next.js
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Redux
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (40.00%) Zustand
3 1 (20.00%) Highcharts JS
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CRISC
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable