OWASP Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 156 162
Rank change year-on-year +51 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing OWASP 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.031% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.038% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £648 - -
25th Percentile £656 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the South West

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol - 5 £680 - 6
Devon - 1 - - 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Security Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISM
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) CEH
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) OSCP
3 1 (16.67%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) COBIT
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP