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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 182 205
Rank change year-on-year +34 +23 +10
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £519 - £406
25th Percentile £547 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £663
90th Percentile £596 £738 £702
England median daily rate £638 £600 £588
% change year-on-year +6.25% +2.13% +2.17%

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 2,928 4,721 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.79% 82.65% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,746 3,517
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 451 234
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.32 £21.73
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.66 £64.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

OWASP
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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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

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 3 July 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
Berkshire +23 6 £575 -11.54% 27
Thames Valley +19 6 £575 +4.55% 47
Hampshire +33 2 £600 -25.00% 21
Surrey - 2 - - 13
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 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) SonarCloud
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Stack
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Snyk
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Moq
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
3 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Compliance Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Compliance Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Data Compliance Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Security Compliance Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Laravel
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) Phalcon
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Symfony
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
2 4 (44.44%) OO
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Progressive Web App
4 2 (22.22%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Debt
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) GPEN
1 1 (11.11%) GWAPT
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) OSCE
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) COBIT
3 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Zend