OWASP Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 121 153
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OWASP 6 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% 0.34% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £355 £439 £437
25th Percentile £418 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £645 £613
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +5.31% +19.51%
75th Percentile £619 £838 £778
90th Percentile £630 £845 £804
Central London median daily rate £500 £645 £613
% change year-on-year -22.48% +5.31% +19.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,697 1,905 2,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.85% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,249 1,997
10th Percentile £323 £375 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £790 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SANS
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (16.67%) CRISC
2 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable