OWASP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
North West median daily rate £569 £675 £608
% change year-on-year -15.74% +11.11% +10.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 391 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.48% 95.60% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 260 302
10th Percentile £313 £296 £301
25th Percentile £369 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £562
90th Percentile £653 £638 £620
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 32
10th Percentile £13.47 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.68 £24.19 £16.73
Median hourly rate £32.23 £33.40 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +25.28% -9.22%
75th Percentile £85.00 £81.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.88 £23.56
% change year-on-year +42.60% +35.34% -36.85%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Cheshire

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Knutsford - 18 £575 - 1
OWASP
North West

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Akamai
5 3 (16.67%) Apigee
5 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
5 3 (16.67%) Kong
6 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (11.11%) IBM Watson
6 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) Vertex AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Application Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) LangChain
2 4 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 4 (22.22%) scikit-learn
3 3 (16.67%) JWT
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (11.11%) PKI
5 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) SIEM
1 10 (55.56%) Threat Modelling
2 9 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Data Security
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (27.78%) SABSA
6 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
6 5 (27.78%) Threat Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Zero Trust
7 4 (22.22%) Bot Management
7 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 4 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (16.67%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) CEH
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable
3 1 (5.56%) Varonis
3 1 (5.56%) Veracode