OWASP Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 143 167 186
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing OWASP 23 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.44% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 27
10th Percentile £263 £483 -
25th Percentile £284 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.90% +4.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £731 £588 £603
90th Percentile £765 £598 £638
England median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +10 14 £313 -45.05% 16
North West +19 8 £675 +17.39% 22
North East - 1 £550 - 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (39.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Slack
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) MySQL
1 10 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (39.13%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (39.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) JIRA
2 9 (39.13%) Cucumber
2 9 (39.13%) Git
2 9 (39.13%) Jasmine
2 9 (39.13%) JUnit
3 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
3 4 (17.39%) Postman
3 4 (17.39%) Selenium
3 4 (17.39%) SoapUI
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 8 (34.78%) Java Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Architect
4 6 (26.09%) Security Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps Architect
5 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) QA Tester
5 4 (17.39%) Security Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Tester
6 3 (13.04%) Lead
7 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) RESTful
1 9 (39.13%) Spring
1 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
1 9 (39.13%) Swagger
2 8 (34.78%) OpenAPI
2 8 (34.78%) Spring Security
3 7 (30.43%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
1 9 (39.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
2 10 (43.48%) API Design
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) BDD
3 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
3 9 (39.13%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) TDD
4 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (34.78%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
6 6 (26.09%) High Availability
6 6 (26.09%) Integration Testing
6 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 6 (26.09%) Project Management
6 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Bash
2 9 (39.13%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (17.39%) CCSP
3 4 (17.39%) CEH
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (17.39%) CISM
3 4 (17.39%) CISSP
3 4 (17.39%) OSCP
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) NIST
2 6 (26.09%) PCI DSS
3 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (17.39%) COBIT
3 4 (17.39%) QA
4 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (4.35%) GRC
5 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft