OWASP Contracts in England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OWASP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OWASP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 434 531
Rank change year-on-year +55 +97 0
Contract jobs citing OWASP 106 108 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 41 70
10th Percentile £313 £483 £425
25th Percentile £525 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%
75th Percentile £744 £650 £666
90th Percentile £792 £723 £739
UK median daily rate £638 £600 £556
% change year-on-year +6.25% +7.87% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in England

OWASP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in England.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in England

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +46 52 £650 +2.36% 55
North of England +24 23 £675 +17.90% 24
South East +26 22 £538 -2.27% 30
Yorkshire +10 14 £313 -45.05% 9
North West +19 8 £675 +17.39% 15
South West +51 6 £680 - 10
Midlands +25 4 £710 - 6
West Midlands +17 4 £710 - 3
North East - 1 £550 -
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (16.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.02%) Azure
2 20 (18.87%) AWS
3 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (16.98%) Cloud Computing
3 18 (16.98%) Slack
4 10 (9.43%) GitHub
5 9 (8.49%) GCP
6 7 (6.60%) IaaS
6 7 (6.60%) PaaS
6 7 (6.60%) SaaS
7 5 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.83%) SonarCloud
10 2 (1.89%) Akamai
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.89%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.09%) HTTP
2 15 (14.15%) Network Security
3 13 (12.26%) Firewall
4 6 (5.66%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (3.77%) DNS
5 4 (3.77%) FTP
5 4 (3.77%) SMTP
5 4 (3.77%) SSL
5 4 (3.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) MySQL
2 22 (20.75%) MongoDB
3 21 (19.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 19 (17.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.77%) Redis
6 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Git
2 23 (21.70%) JIRA
3 18 (16.98%) Cucumber
3 18 (16.98%) Jasmine
3 18 (16.98%) JUnit
4 9 (8.49%) GitLab
5 8 (7.55%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.55%) Snyk
5 8 (7.55%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.66%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.72%) Postman
7 5 (4.72%) Selenium
8 4 (3.77%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.83%) Burp Suite
9 3 (2.83%) Subversion
10 2 (1.89%) JMeter
10 2 (1.89%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.89%) Moq
10 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.43%) Banking
3 10 (9.43%) Finance
4 9 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.72%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Electronics
7 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Developer
2 25 (23.58%) Architect
3 24 (22.64%) Security Architect
4 21 (19.81%) Senior
5 20 (18.87%) Lead
6 16 (15.09%) Java Developer
7 14 (13.21%) Senior Developer
8 12 (11.32%) Tester
9 10 (9.43%) Consultant
10 9 (8.49%) Lead Developer
10 9 (8.49%) Security Consultant
10 9 (8.49%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (7.55%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 7 (6.60%) DevSecOps Architect
13 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (5.66%) Head of Architecture
13 6 (5.66%) Head of Security
13 6 (5.66%) Lead Java Developer
14 5 (4.72%) Security Engineer
14 5 (4.72%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.70%) RESTful
2 20 (18.87%) Spring Boot
3 19 (17.92%) Spring
4 18 (16.98%) Swagger
5 17 (16.04%) OpenAPI
5 17 (16.04%) Spring Security
6 16 (15.09%) Spring Batch
7 13 (12.26%) .NET
8 10 (9.43%) HTML
9 9 (8.49%) CSS
10 8 (7.55%) React
11 7 (6.60%) JSON
12 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
13 4 (3.77%) Kafka
13 4 (3.77%) Laravel
13 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (3.77%) Vue
13 4 (3.77%) Web Services
14 3 (2.83%) Symfony
14 3 (2.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (8.49%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.60%) Private Cloud
3 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.72%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (4.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.89%) PKI
6 2 (1.89%) SCADA
6 2 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.87%) Linux
2 18 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.74%) DevOps
2 39 (36.79%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (34.91%) CI/CD
4 33 (31.13%) Test Automation
5 27 (25.47%) Information Security
5 27 (25.47%) Microservices
6 26 (24.53%) TDD
7 25 (23.58%) BDD
8 23 (21.70%) Agile
8 23 (21.70%) Continuous Delivery
8 23 (21.70%) DevSecOps
9 22 (20.75%) Cloud Security
10 21 (19.81%) Application Security
10 21 (19.81%) Containerisation
10 21 (19.81%) Mentoring
10 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (18.87%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (16.98%) API Design
14 17 (16.04%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.19%) Bash
2 30 (28.30%) SQL
3 26 (24.53%) Python
4 24 (22.64%) Java
5 20 (18.87%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.26%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.38%) C#
7 11 (10.38%) PHP
8 7 (6.60%) Ruby
9 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.83%) Perl
11 2 (1.89%) C
11 2 (1.89%) C++
11 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.87%) CEH
4 18 (16.98%) CISSP
5 15 (14.15%) OSCP
6 14 (13.21%) Degree
7 12 (11.32%) CISM
8 9 (8.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (8.49%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (6.60%) CCSP
10 7 (6.60%) GIAC
10 7 (6.60%) GPEN
10 7 (6.60%) GWAPT
10 7 (6.60%) SANS
11 5 (4.72%) CCSAS
11 5 (4.72%) CREST Certified
12 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.83%) CRISC
12 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (33.96%) NIST
2 15 (14.15%) COBIT
2 15 (14.15%) PCI DSS
3 14 (13.21%) GDPR
3 14 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (7.55%) Accessibility
5 6 (5.66%) QA
6 4 (3.77%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.83%) GRC
8 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.89%) NCSC
9 1 (0.94%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.94%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.49%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
3 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.94%) Argo
4 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Veracode
3 5 (4.72%) Coverity
3 5 (4.72%) SAP
4 4 (3.77%) Zend
5 2 (1.89%) F5
5 2 (1.89%) Imperva
5 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.94%) Databricks
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) Exabeam
6 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat