OWASP Contract Job Trends in Reading

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 81 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% 0.71% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.78% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £459 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -16.67% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 901 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.33% 91.85% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 510 612
10th Percentile £350 £315 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £41.24
25th Percentile £22.38 £35.75 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £94.38 £63.24 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.50 £68.78 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Reading

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OWASP

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Social Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap