OWASP Contracts in London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 301 347 453
Rank change year-on-year +46 +106 -4
Contract jobs citing OWASP 52 44 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 21
10th Percentile £355 £458 £425
25th Percentile £554 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +10.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £741 £700 £750
90th Percentile £825 £760 £813
England median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +2 6 £513 -18.00% 5
East London - 1 - - 1
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 9 (17.31%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (19.23%) AWS
3 10 (19.23%) GitHub
4 9 (17.31%) Slack
5 8 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.54%) IaaS
6 6 (11.54%) PaaS
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (9.62%) GCP
7 5 (9.62%) SaaS
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) HTTP
2 10 (19.23%) Firewall
3 4 (7.69%) DNS
3 4 (7.69%) FTP
3 4 (7.69%) Network Security
3 4 (7.69%) SMTP
3 4 (7.69%) SSL
3 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Apache Cassandra
1 9 (17.31%) MongoDB
1 9 (17.31%) MySQL
1 9 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 10 (19.23%) JIRA
3 9 (17.31%) Cucumber
3 9 (17.31%) Jasmine
3 9 (17.31%) JUnit
4 8 (15.38%) GitLab
5 7 (13.46%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
6 5 (9.62%) Snyk
7 2 (3.85%) JMeter
8 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.92%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.92%) Locust
8 1 (1.92%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.92%) NUnit
8 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.92%) Postman
8 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Legal
5 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Lead
2 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 10 (19.23%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Security Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Lead Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Tester
6 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Tester
7 4 (7.69%) Information Security Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Security Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Information Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) .NET
1 10 (19.23%) Spring
1 10 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 9 (17.31%) OpenAPI
2 9 (17.31%) RESTful
2 9 (17.31%) Spring Batch
2 9 (17.31%) Spring Security
2 9 (17.31%) Swagger
3 7 (13.46%) HTML
4 6 (11.54%) CSS
5 5 (9.62%) JSON
6 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.77%) React
7 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.92%) Express.js
7 1 (1.92%) HTML5
7 1 (1.92%) OpenID
7 1 (1.92%) pytest
7 1 (1.92%) WCF
7 1 (1.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 5 (9.62%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (9.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) DevOps
1 19 (36.54%) Test Automation
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 18 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (28.85%) TDD
4 14 (26.92%) BDD
4 14 (26.92%) Cloud Security
4 14 (26.92%) Mentoring
4 14 (26.92%) Microservices
4 14 (26.92%) Secure Coding
5 13 (25.00%) Information Security
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Application Security
6 12 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
6 12 (23.08%) DevSecOps
7 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
7 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
8 10 (19.23%) Agile
8 10 (19.23%) Computer Science
8 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Bash
2 19 (36.54%) Python
3 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 18 (34.62%) SQL
4 12 (23.08%) Java
5 8 (15.38%) C#
6 7 (13.46%) PHP
7 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (9.62%) Ruby
9 3 (5.77%) Perl
10 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (19.23%) CEH
4 7 (13.46%) CISSP
4 7 (13.46%) SANS
5 6 (11.54%) OSCP
6 5 (9.62%) CCSAS
6 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (9.62%) CREST Certified
6 5 (9.62%) GIAC
6 5 (9.62%) GPEN
6 5 (9.62%) GWAPT
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.77%) CISM
7 3 (5.77%) CRISC
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.85%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) NIST
2 9 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.77%) GDPR
5 2 (3.85%) GRC
5 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.85%) QA
6 1 (1.92%) HL7
6 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Argo
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Veracode
3 5 (9.62%) Coverity
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Exabeam
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce