OWASP Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 215 243
Rank change year-on-year +93 +28 -55
Contract jobs citing OWASP 80 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.42% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 12
10th Percentile - £406 £416
25th Percentile £550 £420 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £702 £614
90th Percentile £650 £709 £624
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,803 5,308 7,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.43% 89.51% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,804 3,676 4,760
10th Percentile £230 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +1.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £615 £588
90th Percentile £694 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 216 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.21 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +111.11% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.35 £64.72 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £71.89 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

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 18 April 2024. 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 +68 68 £575 +1.37% 7
Berkshire +49 65 £650 +14.59% 7
Hampshire +21 12 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £550 -
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 66 (82.50%) IaaS
1 66 (82.50%) PaaS
1 66 (82.50%) SaaS
2 1 (1.25%) AWS
2 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (1.25%) Azure
2 1 (1.25%) GCP
2 1 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (82.50%) 5G
1 66 (82.50%) Broadband
2 8 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) MySQL
1 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) AppScan
2 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 66 (82.50%) Law
1 66 (82.50%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (82.50%) Penetration Tester
1 66 (82.50%) Security Penetration Tester
1 66 (82.50%) Security Specialist
1 66 (82.50%) Security Tester
1 66 (82.50%) Tester
1 66 (82.50%) Testing Specialist
2 9 (11.25%) Consultant
2 9 (11.25%) Security Consultant
3 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 4 (5.00%) Architect
4 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 4 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (2.50%) Development Consultant
5 2 (2.50%) Senior
5 2 (2.50%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (2.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (2.50%) Senior Security Consultant
6 1 (1.25%) Site Engineer
6 1 (1.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (1.25%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (82.50%) Web Services
2 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 67 (83.75%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) IoT
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
1 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (97.50%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (96.25%) Application Security
3 72 (90.00%) Security Testing
3 72 (90.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (82.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 66 (82.50%) Penetration Testing
5 11 (13.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (11.25%) Information Security
7 8 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 8 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (10.00%) Information Security Management
7 8 (10.00%) ITIL
7 8 (10.00%) Security Management
8 7 (8.75%) Risk Management
9 5 (6.25%) Budget Management
9 5 (6.25%) Budgeting
9 5 (6.25%) Capacity Management
9 5 (6.25%) Project Planning
9 5 (6.25%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.25%) Bash
1 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 67 (83.75%) SANS
2 66 (82.50%) CREST Certified
2 66 (82.50%) GIAC
2 66 (82.50%) GPEN
2 66 (82.50%) OSCP
2 66 (82.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) ISACA
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) CSSLP
4 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (92.50%) GDPR
2 66 (82.50%) NCSC
2 66 (82.50%) PCI DSS
3 8 (10.00%) COBIT
3 8 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Ansible
1 1 (1.25%) Grafana
1 1 (1.25%) Graylog
1 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
1 1 (1.25%) Nagios
1 1 (1.25%) Nessus
1 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.25%) Puppet
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
1 1 (1.25%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 66 (82.50%) Virgin Media
2 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.25%) Splunk
2 1 (1.25%) Veracode