OWASP Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 137 163 211
Rank change year-on-year +26 +48 +27
Contract jobs citing OWASP 22 42 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.76% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.89% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £443 - £406
25th Percentile £490 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £702
90th Percentile £615 - £706
England median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%

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 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the South East

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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 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
Thames Valley +20 14 £575 +4.55% 5
Berkshire +11 14 £575 -11.54% 3
Hampshire +28 7 £536 - 2
Surrey - 2 - - 6
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) SonarCloud
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Network Security
2 6 (27.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 4 (18.18%) Redis
2 3 (13.64%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Snyk
2 3 (13.64%) Subversion
3 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.09%) Metasploit
3 2 (9.09%) Moq
3 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Head of Architecture
2 6 (27.27%) Head of Security
3 5 (22.73%) Head of Strategy
4 3 (13.64%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Compliance Project Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Data Compliance Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Security Compliance Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Security Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Security Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) RESTful
2 4 (18.18%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) Laravel
2 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (18.18%) React
2 4 (18.18%) Vue
3 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (13.64%) CSS
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) Phalcon
3 3 (13.64%) Symfony
3 3 (13.64%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) XML
4 2 (9.09%) YAML
5 1 (4.55%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Information Security
2 9 (40.91%) Risk Management
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (36.36%) ITIL
4 7 (31.82%) OO
4 7 (31.82%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 6 (27.27%) Scrum
6 5 (22.73%) Application Security
6 5 (22.73%) Budgeting
6 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
7 4 (18.18%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) MVC
7 4 (18.18%) OO PHP
7 4 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) PHP
3 3 (13.64%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) C
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) GPEN
1 2 (9.09%) GWAPT
1 2 (9.09%) ISACA
1 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 2 (9.09%) OSCE
1 2 (9.09%) OSCP
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CEH
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) NIST
2 10 (45.45%) GDPR
3 8 (36.36%) COBIT
4 2 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
5 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 4 (18.18%) Zend
2 2 (9.09%) SAP