OWASP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 175 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +80
Contract jobs citing OWASP 12 6 74
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.14% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.17% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £406 - £613
25th Percentile £406 £775 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £512 £825 £713
90th Percentile £572 - £728
England median daily rate £575 £690 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.00% +7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,320 3,524 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.90% 84.57% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,094 2,143 3,213
10th Percentile £214 £260 £225
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £688 £699
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 169 249
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £16.20
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +40.00%
75th Percentile £34.38 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OWASP job vacancy trend in the South East

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the South East over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the South East

OWASP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OWASP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OWASP

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Thames Valley +18 11 £425 - 15
Berkshire +14 9 £425 - 4
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 6
West Sussex - 1 £570 - 1
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) Intranet
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Burp Suite
2 7 (58.33%) Metasploit
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Kali Linux
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Red Team
3 7 (58.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 7 (58.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
5 1 (8.33%) Runbook
5 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Social Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) Bash
3 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) OSCP
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) CEH
2 7 (58.33%) GPEN
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (8.33%) CCSP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Nmap
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform