OWASP Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.60% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% - -
75th Percentile £550 £338 -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £325 -
% change year-on-year +61.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 182 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.49% 92.86% 84.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 90 94
10th Percentile £179 £298 £233
25th Percentile £368 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £595
90th Percentile £577 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -0.44% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx