OWASP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 351 377
Rank change year-on-year +69 +26 +4
Contract jobs citing OWASP 57 43 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 42
10th Percentile £267 £483 £425
25th Percentile £459 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £680 £634 £634
90th Percentile £713 £650 £702
UK median daily rate £593 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.25% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +46 18 £538 -2.27% 41
North of England +22 18 £525 -7.69% 42
Scotland +7 12 £488 -21.69% 8
Yorkshire +13 10 £275 -51.33% 21
South West +43 7 £671 +11.88% 34
North West +10 7 £675 +17.39% 19
Midlands +18 3 £800 - 24
West Midlands +12 3 £800 - 13
North East - 1 £550 - 2
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) AWS
3 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (8.77%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.77%) GitHub
4 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.77%) Serverless
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.02%) Slack
6 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.26%) Firebase
6 3 (5.26%) GCP
6 3 (5.26%) SonarCloud
7 2 (3.51%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.51%) CloudFront
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.51%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) MySQL
2 10 (17.54%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.28%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Git
2 11 (19.30%) Cypress.io
3 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.04%) JIRA
5 5 (8.77%) Storybook
6 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.02%) Jasmine
6 4 (7.02%) JUnit
6 4 (7.02%) Postman
6 4 (7.02%) Selenium
6 4 (7.02%) SoapUI
7 3 (5.26%) Snyk
7 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.26%) Subversion
8 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.51%) Burp Suite
8 2 (3.51%) Metasploit
8 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Electronics
5 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Developer
2 13 (22.81%) Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Security Architect
4 10 (17.54%) Senior
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Consultant
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 7 (12.28%) Security Consultant
7 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Tester
8 5 (8.77%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.77%) React Developer
9 4 (7.02%) DevSecOps Architect
9 4 (7.02%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (7.02%) Head of Architecture
9 4 (7.02%) Head of Security
9 4 (7.02%) QA Tester
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.82%) RESTful
2 11 (19.30%) CSS
3 10 (17.54%) React
4 8 (14.04%) .NET
4 8 (14.04%) .NET Core
5 7 (12.28%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (10.53%) HTML
6 6 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.77%) Jest
7 5 (8.77%) Spring
7 5 (8.77%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (7.02%) AWS CDK
8 4 (7.02%) Kafka
8 4 (7.02%) Laravel
8 4 (7.02%) Spring Batch
8 4 (7.02%) Spring Security
8 4 (7.02%) Swagger
8 4 (7.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.51%) SCADA
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
6 1 (1.75%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.26%) AIX
4 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) DevOps
2 21 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (31.58%) Agile
4 13 (22.81%) Microservices
5 12 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 11 (19.30%) Information Security
7 10 (17.54%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (17.54%) DevSecOps
7 10 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (17.54%) OO
8 8 (14.04%) BDD
8 8 (14.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.04%) TDD
9 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
9 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.28%) Scrum
9 7 (12.28%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
2 13 (22.81%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
4 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.53%) Python
6 5 (8.77%) C#
7 4 (7.02%) PHP
7 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.51%) C
9 2 (3.51%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) Objective-C
9 2 (3.51%) Ruby
9 2 (3.51%) Swift
10 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.75%) VB
10 1 (1.75%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) CISSP
3 7 (12.28%) OSCP
4 6 (10.53%) CEH
4 6 (10.53%) CISM
5 4 (7.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (7.02%) CCSP
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.26%) Degree
7 2 (3.51%) GPEN
7 2 (3.51%) GWAPT
7 2 (3.51%) ISACA
7 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.51%) OSCE
8 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.75%) GIAC
8 1 (1.75%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (35.09%) NIST
2 10 (17.54%) COBIT
2 10 (17.54%) PCI DSS
3 8 (14.04%) GDPR
4 7 (12.28%) NCSC
5 6 (10.53%) QA
6 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
6 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.75%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.75%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Packer
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Puppet
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Zend
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) Imperva
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce