OWASP Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 36 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Contract jobs citing OWASP 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.41% - 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile £525 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile £575 - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
North East median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Tyne and Wear

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Tyne and Wear

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £550 - 1
OWASP
North East

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft