OWASP Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh 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 55 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing OWASP 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.03% - 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £609
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.23%
75th Percentile £566 - £614
90th Percentile £629 - -
Scotland median daily rate £488 £420 £555
% change year-on-year +16.07% -24.32% +0.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 603 705 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.37% 85.56% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 370 614
10th Percentile £309 £221 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £626 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £49.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.88 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

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

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (38.46%) AWS CodePipeline
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Firebase
5 2 (15.38%) Akamai
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
1 5 (38.46%) Storybook
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) React Developer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) iOS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) Jest
2 5 (38.46%) React
2 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) Tailwind CSS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS CDK
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (23.08%) Ajax
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Amplify
4 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
4 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) JMS
4 3 (23.08%) Middleware
4 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (15.38%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) AIX
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) Secure Coding
3 4 (30.77%) Case Management
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Deployment Diagram
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Web Development
4 3 (23.08%) Workflow
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
1 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
3 2 (15.38%) Swift
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) VB
4 1 (7.69%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) F5