OWASP Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.97% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £634 £600 -
% change year-on-year +5.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 104 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 87.38% 87.39% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 137
10th Percentile £189 £309 £176
25th Percentile £267 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -9.30% +8.59%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £638
90th Percentile £568 £703 £730
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 49
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.41 £18.95
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £48.14
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +15.87%
75th Percentile £15.75 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £22.06 £43.84 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Dorset

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin