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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 462 530
Rank change year-on-year +95 +68 -5
Contract jobs citing OWASP 100 80 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 64
10th Percentile £308 £456 £425
25th Percentile £500 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £680 £697 £678
90th Percentile £790 £850 £746
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - -
Median hourly rate £29.51 - £70.00
75th Percentile £31.99 - -
90th Percentile £32.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.51 - £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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 +56 56 £650 +2.36% 72
North of England +17 16 £406 -28.57% 43
South East +48 15 £538 -2.27% 41
Yorkshire +8 10 £275 -51.33% 20
South West +39 7 £671 +11.88% 32
North West +11 5 £671 +16.74% 21
Midlands +15 3 £800 - 23
West Midlands +14 3 £800 - 13
East of England - 3 £249 - 22
North East - 1 £550 - 2
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 11 (11.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (23.00%) AWS
4 13 (13.00%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (11.00%) Slack
6 10 (10.00%) GitHub
7 8 (8.00%) GCP
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (5.00%) IaaS
9 5 (5.00%) PaaS
9 5 (5.00%) SaaS
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.00%) Serverless
11 3 (3.00%) SonarCloud
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.00%) Azure AI
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Stack
12 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) HTTP
2 11 (11.00%) Firewall
2 11 (11.00%) Network Security
3 5 (5.00%) SSL
4 4 (4.00%) DNS
4 4 (4.00%) FTP
4 4 (4.00%) SMTP
4 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) MySQL
2 18 (18.00%) MongoDB
3 15 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (14.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.00%) Redis
7 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (23.00%) Git
2 16 (16.00%) JIRA
3 12 (12.00%) GitLab
4 11 (11.00%) Cucumber
4 11 (11.00%) Jasmine
4 11 (11.00%) JUnit
4 11 (11.00%) SonarQube
5 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 8 (8.00%) Snyk
7 6 (6.00%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.00%) Postman
8 5 (5.00%) Selenium
9 4 (4.00%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.00%) Burp Suite
10 3 (3.00%) Subversion
11 2 (2.00%) JMeter
11 2 (2.00%) Metasploit
11 2 (2.00%) Moq
11 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (9.00%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Electronics
6 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.00%) Marketing
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) Developer
2 23 (23.00%) Architect
2 23 (23.00%) Security Architect
3 22 (22.00%) Lead
4 17 (17.00%) Senior
5 13 (13.00%) Senior Developer
6 12 (12.00%) Java Developer
6 12 (12.00%) Lead Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Tester
8 9 (9.00%) Consultant
9 8 (8.00%) Security Consultant
10 7 (7.00%) .NET Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Developer
11 6 (6.00%) C# Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Lead .NET Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Lead C# Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.00%) RESTful
2 17 (17.00%) .NET
3 14 (14.00%) Spring Boot
4 13 (13.00%) Spring
5 12 (12.00%) Swagger
6 11 (11.00%) OpenAPI
6 11 (11.00%) Spring Batch
6 11 (11.00%) Spring Security
7 9 (9.00%) .NET Core
7 9 (9.00%) React
8 8 (8.00%) HTML
9 7 (7.00%) CSS
9 7 (7.00%) JSON
10 4 (4.00%) Kafka
10 4 (4.00%) Laravel
10 4 (4.00%) OAuth
10 4 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.00%) Vue
10 4 (4.00%) Web Services
11 3 (3.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 12 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.00%) PKI
5 5 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.00%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.00%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.00%) SCADA
9 1 (1.00%) IoT
9 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) DevOps
2 34 (34.00%) CI/CD
3 30 (30.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (29.00%) Test Automation
5 25 (25.00%) Microservices
6 22 (22.00%) TDD
7 21 (21.00%) BDD
8 20 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 20 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 19 (19.00%) Information Security
9 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.00%) Cloud Security
11 17 (17.00%) Mentoring
11 17 (17.00%) Secure Coding
12 16 (16.00%) Application Security
12 16 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
13 15 (15.00%) Design Patterns
13 15 (15.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.00%) SQL
2 24 (24.00%) Bash
2 24 (24.00%) Python
3 22 (22.00%) PowerShell
4 21 (21.00%) Java
5 14 (14.00%) C#
5 14 (14.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.00%) PHP
7 5 (5.00%) Ruby
8 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.00%) Perl
10 2 (2.00%) C
10 2 (2.00%) C++
10 2 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) CISSP
4 13 (13.00%) CEH
4 13 (13.00%) OSCP
5 12 (12.00%) Degree
6 11 (11.00%) CISM
7 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (8.00%) SANS
8 6 (6.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (5.00%) CREST Certified
9 5 (5.00%) GIAC
9 5 (5.00%) GPEN
9 5 (5.00%) GWAPT
10 4 (4.00%) CCSP
11 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.00%) CCSAS
11 3 (3.00%) CRISC
11 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.00%) NIST
2 17 (17.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (12.00%) PCI DSS
4 10 (10.00%) COBIT
4 10 (10.00%) GDPR
5 9 (9.00%) QA
6 7 (7.00%) Accessibility
7 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
8 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (3.00%) NCSC
9 2 (2.00%) GRC
9 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.00%) EU AI Act
10 1 (1.00%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Argo
4 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) SAP
3 6 (6.00%) Veracode
4 5 (5.00%) Coverity
5 4 (4.00%) Zend
6 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.00%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) F5
7 1 (1.00%) Imperva
7 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk