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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 185 211
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 +12
Contract jobs citing OWASP 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.14% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile £563 £775 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +45.45% -7.56%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £619
90th Percentile £598 - £660
England median daily rate £619 £606 £600
% change year-on-year +2.06% +1.04% +4.35%

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 3,156 4,077 5,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.89% 82.68% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 2,486 3,397
10th Percentile £250 £255 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 323 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.39 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.70% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.03 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 13 August 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 +12 4 £575 - 2
Thames Valley +8 4 £575 - 6
Hampshire +23 1 £600 -25.00% 1
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 3 (75.00%) SonarCloud
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Compliance Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Compliance Project Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Data Compliance Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Security Compliance Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Security Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR