OWASP Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £614 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £622 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £621 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 105 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.75% 97.22% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 91 90
10th Percentile £313 £350 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £378 £545
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -30.64% +9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £498 £586
90th Percentile £621 £600 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £32.25 £25.14
% change year-on-year -28.14% +28.31% +29.50%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Knutsford

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Watson
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM