OWASP Contracts in Edinburgh

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 106 117
Rank change year-on-year +39 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing OWASP 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.86% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.32% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £511 £435 -
25th Percentile £611 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £539 £520
Median % change year-on-year +15.60% +3.56% +4.00%
75th Percentile £634 £561 £589
90th Percentile - £584 £618
Scotland median daily rate £623 £545 £558
% change year-on-year +14.22% -2.24% +19.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Maven
2 6 (85.71%) Git
2 6 (85.71%) Gradle
2 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Site Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) Java EE
1 1 (14.29%) JPA
1 1 (14.29%) JSP
1 1 (14.29%) JSTL
1 1 (14.29%) OpenJDK
1 1 (14.29%) Servlets
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) STL
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Application Security
1 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (85.71%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Case Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Groovy
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) Ruby
1 6 (85.71%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) VMware