OWASP Contracts in Central London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 129 172 189
Rank change year-on-year +43 +17 -53
Contract jobs citing OWASP 8 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.33% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £513 £574 £614
25th Percentile £563 £591 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £680
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -0.74% +43.16%
75th Percentile £660 £803 £700
90th Percentile £680 £809 £715
London median daily rate £648 £600 £605
% change year-on-year +7.92% -0.83% +21.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,227 3,551 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.66% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,404 3,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.22 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Central London

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Central London

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

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 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
City of London +45 8 £625 -7.41% 2
OWASP
London

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (12.50%) AppScan
3 1 (12.50%) Darcs
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Mercurial
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) RStudio
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CBDC
1 1 (12.50%) Digital Currency
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) OOP
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SANS
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Graylog
4 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
4 1 (12.50%) Kibana
4 1 (12.50%) logstash
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Veracode