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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 154 180
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +20
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 15
10th Percentile £403 £490 £500
25th Percentile £506 £549 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +1.65% +9.52%
75th Percentile £673 £665 £622
90th Percentile £681 £724 £698
England median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £29.51 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -37.87% -32.14% -

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 3,489 3,500 4,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.73% 84.03% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,115 3,202
10th Percentile £268 £300 £298
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 248 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.06 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.45 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% -13.14% +48.35%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £70.00 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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

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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 5 August 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 5 August 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 4 £406 -31.61% 4
North West -10 4 £663 +15.22% 10
North East - 1 £550 -
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Datadog
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) X.509
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Artifactory
2 4 (44.44%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
5 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
2 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Apache CXF
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) Dropwizard
3 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) API Development
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 2 (22.22%) Iteration Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
5 2 (22.22%) SOLID
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft