OWASP Contract Job Trends in East London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.83% 3.06% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 3.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £585 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £563 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -13.46% -1.52% +14.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 93 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 83.33% 94.90% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 77 176
10th Percentile £315 £271 £357
25th Percentile £424 £415 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +0.56%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £628
90th Percentile £724 £675 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.66 -
25th Percentile £21.85 £24.66 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.43 £28.60 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +22.64% +3.71%
75th Percentile £26.44 £37.00 £36.48
90th Percentile £28.00 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in East London

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

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

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Tower Hamlets -8 1 £750 +28.21%
OWASP
London

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST