OWASP Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £496 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £800 -
% change year-on-year -35.75% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 135 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.67% 95.07% 64.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 92 60
10th Percentile £351 £308 £200
25th Percentile £413 £399 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £359
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +28.13% -33.52%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £503
90th Percentile £588 £548 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 8
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £61.00 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Shropshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing OWASP

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Telford - 2 £502 - 2
OWASP
West Midlands

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Actian