OWASP Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.77% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% - 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £600
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £413 £659 £600
% change year-on-year -37.38% +9.79% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 157 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 76.02% 94.01% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 100 94
10th Percentile £357 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £374 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £600
90th Percentile £725 £775 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 22 32
10th Percentile £25.10 £14.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £20.39 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year +101.40% -48.09% -4.35%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in Somerset

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing OWASP

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 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
Taunton - 3 £413 - 2
OWASP
South West

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ATL
1 3 (100.00%) COM
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
1 3 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) MFC
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft