OWASP Contracts in the Midlands

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 142 185
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 -39
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.036% 0.67% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.75% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £521 £443
25th Percentile - £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -4.93% +20.52%
75th Percentile - £622 £650
90th Percentile - £703 £813
England median daily rate £575 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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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

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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 26 April 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
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
OWASP
England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree