OWASP Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 143 159
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing OWASP 5 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.40% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.45% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £505 £500 £421
25th Percentile £536 £533 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £696 £613 £573
90th Percentile £736 £695 £613
England median daily rate £575 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the North West

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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 26 April 2024. 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 +9 5 £608 +8.00% 2
OWASP
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Records Management
5 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (20.00%) Biomedicine
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Security Management
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
1 5 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (60.00%) GRC
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7