OWASP Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.57% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% - -
75th Percentile £550 £338 -
90th Percentile £565 - -
North East median daily rate £525 £325 -
% change year-on-year +61.54% - -

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 316 200 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.52% 91.32% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 103 102
10th Percentile £182 £305 £191
25th Percentile £363 £352 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £579
90th Percentile £581 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 3
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.75 £14.83 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £18.75
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +94.59% +5.71% -22.22%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OWASP

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 24 December 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 -13 2 £525 +61.54% 3
OWASP
North East

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx