OWASP Contracts in West Yorkshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 49 68 105
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 +13
Contract jobs citing OWASP 13 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.37% 0.90% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 1.03% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 1
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £263 £483 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +29.41% +30.77%
75th Percentile £756 £584 £450
90th Percentile £777 £595 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £313 £569 £525
% change year-on-year -45.05% +8.33% -5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in West Yorkshire

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in West Yorkshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in West Yorkshire

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +7 13 £478 -13.18% 4
OWASP
Yorkshire

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (53.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Slack
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Apache Cassandra
1 7 (53.85%) MongoDB
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) JIRA
2 7 (53.85%) Cucumber
2 7 (53.85%) Jasmine
2 7 (53.85%) JUnit
3 6 (46.15%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
4 4 (30.77%) Postman
4 4 (30.77%) Selenium
4 4 (30.77%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) QA Tester
3 4 (30.77%) Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Architect
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
1 7 (53.85%) Swagger
2 6 (46.15%) OpenAPI
2 6 (46.15%) Spring Security
3 5 (38.46%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) API Design
2 7 (53.85%) BDD
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) TDD
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Kernel Tuning
3 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (38.46%) Coaching
4 5 (38.46%) High Availability
4 5 (38.46%) Operational Stability
4 5 (38.46%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Bash
1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (15.38%) CCSP
2 2 (15.38%) CEH
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) COBIT
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes