OWASP Contracts in Scotland

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 119 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 -2
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £481 £571 £446
25th Percentile £513 £611 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £623 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +14.22% -0.91%
75th Percentile £699 £675 £600
90th Percentile £726 £681 £660
UK median daily rate £638 £600 £556
% change year-on-year +6.25% +7.87% -3.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Scotland

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +6 8 £550 -11.65% 3
Glasgow +1 1 £685 +5.38% 1
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
3 1 (11.11%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) Storybook
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) iOS Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (22.22%) Ajax
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 2 (22.22%) Core Data
2 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Jest
2 2 (22.22%) JMS
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (22.22%) UIKit
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) AIX
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Case Management
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Diagram
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) iOS Development
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Security Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Objective-C
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Swift
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CEH
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) NCSC
2 3 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (11.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Packer
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) VMware