OWASP Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50 41 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 92.59% 69.49% 77.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 63
10th Percentile £222 £195 £175
25th Percentile £253 £274 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -1.39% -
75th Percentile £516 £500 £563
90th Percentile £679 £572 £675
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £51.08 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +219.22% - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -1.35% -21.12% +61.60%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Oxford

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform