OWASP Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing OWASP 12 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.76% - 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% - 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £603 - -
25th Percentile £663 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £551
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.89%
75th Percentile - - £560
90th Percentile - - £577
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - £551
% change year-on-year - - +4.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 652 367 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.74% 89.95% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 194 217
10th Percentile £313 £250 £375
25th Percentile £400 £441 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.59% +4.52%
75th Percentile £538 £583 £650
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -6.60% -7.05% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - +11.89%
75th Percentile £22.01 £21.50 £25.63
90th Percentile £25.15 - £29.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £23.75
% change year-on-year +47.08% -45.98% +47.29%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Sheffield

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Sheffield

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Akamai
3 3 (25.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SNMP
1 4 (33.33%) SSH
1 4 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
2 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
General
1 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cryptography Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) JSON
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Application Security
3 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Data Security
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Observability
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) FFIEC
2 3 (25.00%) CEH
2 3 (25.00%) GIAC
2 3 (25.00%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) GLBA
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
1 4 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) Splunk
3 3 (25.00%) Imperva
3 3 (25.00%) Thales