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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 356 453
Rank change year-on-year +67 +97 +11
Contract jobs citing OWASP 52 41 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 20
10th Percentile £415 £433 £424
25th Percentile £563 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +10.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £747 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £841
England median daily rate £613 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +6.52% +4.55% -4.35%

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 11,187 15,413 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.53% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 11,060 16,862
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 306 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £27.83 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -28.65% +7.11%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £66.88 £82.60
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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 23 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 0 6 £575 -8.00% 10
East London - 3 £585 - 3
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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (19.23%) AWS
3 10 (19.23%) GitHub
4 8 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (11.54%) Slack
6 5 (9.62%) GCP
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.77%) Serverless
9 2 (3.85%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.85%) IaaS
9 2 (3.85%) PaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) HTTP
2 9 (17.31%) Firewall
3 6 (11.54%) Network Security
4 5 (9.62%) SSL
5 4 (7.69%) DNS
5 4 (7.69%) FTP
5 4 (7.69%) SMTP
5 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
1 6 (11.54%) MySQL
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) GitLab
2 8 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 7 (13.46%) JIRA
4 6 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 6 (11.54%) Jasmine
4 6 (11.54%) JUnit
5 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.62%) Snyk
6 2 (3.85%) JMeter
6 2 (3.85%) Postman
7 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.92%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.92%) Locust
7 1 (1.92%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.92%) NUnit
7 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.77%) Electronics
4 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.77%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Lead
2 12 (23.08%) Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Lead Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
5 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Information Security Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Security Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.77%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.77%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead .NET Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) .NET
2 7 (13.46%) Spring
2 7 (13.46%) Spring Boot
2 7 (13.46%) Swagger
3 6 (11.54%) OpenAPI
3 6 (11.54%) RESTful
3 6 (11.54%) Spring Batch
3 6 (11.54%) Spring Security
4 5 (9.62%) JSON
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.69%) React
6 3 (5.77%) HTML
7 2 (3.85%) CSS
8 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.92%) ADO
8 1 (1.92%) J2EE
8 1 (1.92%) LDAP
8 1 (1.92%) MSMQ
8 1 (1.92%) SAML
8 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.62%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.69%) PKI
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) DevOps
2 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
2 17 (32.69%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (28.85%) Agile
4 14 (26.92%) DevSecOps
5 13 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 13 (25.00%) TDD
5 13 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 12 (23.08%) BDD
6 12 (23.08%) Cloud Security
6 12 (23.08%) Microservices
6 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 11 (21.15%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
8 10 (19.23%) Application Security
8 10 (19.23%) Design Patterns
8 10 (19.23%) Security Architecture
8 10 (19.23%) SIEM
9 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (17.31%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 17 (32.69%) Bash
2 17 (32.69%) Python
3 12 (23.08%) SQL
4 9 (17.31%) C#
4 9 (17.31%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
5 3 (5.77%) PHP
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.92%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) CISSP
3 8 (15.38%) SANS
4 7 (13.46%) Degree
5 6 (11.54%) CEH
6 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.77%) CISM
7 3 (5.77%) CREST Certified
7 3 (5.77%) CRISC
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.85%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.85%) GIAC
8 2 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (3.85%) ISSEP
8 2 (3.85%) OSCP
9 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (23.08%) NIST
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) GRC
3 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.92%) HL7
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Argo
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Veracode
3 5 (9.62%) Coverity
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk