OWASP Contracts in London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 450 463
Rank change year-on-year +93 +13 -124
Contract jobs citing OWASP 37 42 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 88
10th Percentile £443 £431 £422
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £778 £678
90th Percentile £790 £835 £850
England median daily rate £575 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.93% +10.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,832 35,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.97% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,214 17,166 25,985
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 270 416
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.25 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% +4.08% +13.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.23 £69.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in London

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in London

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in London

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Central London +47 8 £625 -3.85% 3
South London - 2 £475 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
1 2 (5.41%) Jupyter
1 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (21.62%) GitHub
5 7 (18.92%) Azure Functions
5 7 (18.92%) Serverless
6 6 (16.22%) Azure API Management
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Batch
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Storage
6 6 (16.22%) GCP
6 6 (16.22%) Power Automate
6 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
6 6 (16.22%) PowerApps
7 3 (8.11%) Akamai
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
2 5 (13.51%) HTTP
3 4 (10.81%) Internet
3 4 (10.81%) Wireless
4 3 (8.11%) DNS
4 3 (8.11%) Network Security
5 2 (5.41%) SSL
5 2 (5.41%) VPN
6 1 (2.70%) DHCP
6 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Big Data
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.92%) Data Lake
3 6 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (16.22%) OLTP
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio Team System
3 5 (13.51%) Burp Suite
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) Postman
4 3 (8.11%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.41%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) RStudio
6 1 (2.70%) Darcs
6 1 (2.70%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) Gradle
6 1 (2.70%) Mercurial
6 1 (2.70%) Mockito
6 1 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) Subversion
6 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Retail
3 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Consultant
2 7 (18.92%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Applications Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Security Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.41%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Junior
5 2 (5.41%) Junior Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Security Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) ARM Templates
2 6 (16.22%) JSON
2 6 (16.22%) Web Services
2 6 (16.22%) XML
3 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.11%) gRPC
3 3 (8.11%) WebSockets
4 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) SAML
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) IoT
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) CBDC
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
5 11 (29.73%) DevSecOps
5 11 (29.73%) Penetration Testing
5 11 (29.73%) Secure Coding
6 9 (24.32%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (24.32%) Kanban
6 9 (24.32%) Microservices
7 8 (21.62%) TDD
8 7 (18.92%) BDD
8 7 (18.92%) Migration
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.92%) Scrum
8 7 (18.92%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (16.22%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (16.22%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) C#
2 14 (37.84%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
4 10 (27.03%) Java
5 6 (16.22%) Go
6 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
7 4 (10.81%) Bash
8 3 (8.11%) SQL
9 2 (5.41%) C
9 2 (5.41%) C++
9 2 (5.41%) R
9 2 (5.41%) Ruby
10 1 (2.70%) Perl
10 1 (2.70%) Rust
10 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) CREST Certified
2 5 (13.51%) OSCP
3 4 (10.81%) CHECK Team Leader
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
3 4 (10.81%) GIAC
4 3 (8.11%) CISM
4 3 (8.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.11%) CSSLP
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) CEH
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.41%) SANS
6 1 (2.70%) ISEB
6 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (45.95%) NIST
2 10 (27.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
3 3 (8.11%) QA
4 2 (5.41%) COBIT
4 2 (5.41%) ISO 22301
4 2 (5.41%) NCSC
5 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.70%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 3 (8.11%) Nessus
4 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) Graylog
6 1 (2.70%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.70%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) logstash
6 1 (2.70%) Nagios
6 1 (2.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) F5
3 3 (8.11%) Imperva
3 3 (8.11%) Qualys
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Cadence
5 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.70%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Okta
5 1 (2.70%) Veracode