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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £575 - -

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 306 114 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.23% 96.61% 93.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 104 99
10th Percentile £350 £317 £361
25th Percentile £394 £356 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.16% -24.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £498 £583
90th Percentile £653 £605 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £33.40 £26.66
% change year-on-year -3.52% +25.28% -9.22%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Knutsford

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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Akamai
5 3 (16.67%) Apigee
5 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
5 3 (16.67%) Kong
6 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (11.11%) IBM Watson
6 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) Vertex AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Application Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) LangChain
2 4 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 4 (22.22%) scikit-learn
3 3 (16.67%) JWT
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (11.11%) PKI
5 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) SIEM
1 10 (55.56%) Threat Modelling
2 9 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Data Security
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (27.78%) SABSA
6 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
6 5 (27.78%) Threat Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Zero Trust
7 4 (22.22%) Bot Management
7 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 4 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (16.67%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) CEH
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable
3 1 (5.56%) Varonis
3 1 (5.56%) Veracode