OWASP Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 118 144
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £565 £503 £550
25th Percentile £568 £530 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £658
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -12.55% +28.29%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £699
90th Percentile £683 £725 £713
England median daily rate £619 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +4.35%
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,997 2,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.59% 84.23% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,211 1,826
10th Percentile £279 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £674
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 169 171
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.08
Median hourly rate £27.90 £34.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.44% -2.26% +60.70%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.63% +58.11%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the North West

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester -1 7 £575 - 10
Cheshire -15 2 £663 - 2
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England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Datadog
2 7 (77.78%) GitHub
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (55.56%) Apigee
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 5 (55.56%) Loggly
3 5 (55.56%) Route 53
3 5 (55.56%) Serverless
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) PaaS
4 4 (44.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) X.509
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (55.56%) BigQuery
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
1 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Redis
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Gradle
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
1 5 (55.56%) SonarLint
1 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Java Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Dropwizard
1 5 (55.56%) J2EE
1 5 (55.56%) JWT
1 5 (55.56%) Micronaut
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (44.44%) Celery
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
3 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
3 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 1 (11.11%) OpenID
4 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
1 5 (55.56%) N-Tier
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) BDD
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) TDD
3 6 (66.67%) API Design
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) SOLID
4 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
4 5 (55.56%) CQRS
4 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
4 5 (55.56%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
4 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (55.56%) SDLC
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
4 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Gigya
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian