OWASP Contracts in Manchester

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 71 90 109
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing OWASP 8 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.45% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £503 £546
25th Percentile £638 £530 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £713 £669 £666
90th Percentile £735 £725 £707
North West median daily rate £675 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (25.00%) Slack
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) API Design
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (25.00%) CCSP
1 2 (25.00%) CEH
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) OSCP
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (25.00%) COBIT
5 1 (12.50%) GRC
5 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On