OWASP Contracts in the Midlands

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 107 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +51
Contract jobs citing OWASP 4 1 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.036% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.044% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £606 - £521
25th Percentile £615 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.93%
75th Percentile £800 - £622
90th Percentile - - £703
England median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the Midlands

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 4 £710 - 3
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Akamai
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (25.00%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Imperva