OWASP Contract Job Trends in the North East

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 51 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.50% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.36% -
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 - -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -11.54% +5.69% +11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 278 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.75% 92.67% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 132 145
10th Percentile £178 £306 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £536 £591 £575
90th Percentile £591 £718 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

OWASP job vacancy trend in the North East

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OWASP

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Tyne and Wear -10 2 £525 +61.54% 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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