OWASP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OWASP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing OWASP 5 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.39% - 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £389 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £613 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £29.51 - £44.50
75th Percentile £31.99 - £47.31
90th Percentile £32.88 - £49.00
England median hourly rate £29.51 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.87% +6.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,160 1,247 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.44% 81.50% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 457 879
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £377 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £628
90th Percentile £687 £638 £727
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 383 360
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the East of England

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the East of England

OWASP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OWASP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OWASP

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 3 £249 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £850 - 4
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Compliance Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SANS
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) COBIT
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Clearswift