OWASP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 385 446
Rank change year-on-year +103 +61 -94
Contract jobs citing OWASP 70 85 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 119
10th Percentile £463 £465 £428
25th Percentile £528 £503 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year - +1.59% +13.20%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £618
90th Percentile £701 £750 £660
UK median daily rate £600 £556 £575
% change year-on-year +7.87% -3.26% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £94.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OWASP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OWASP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

OWASP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) IaaS
1 31 (44.29%) PaaS
1 31 (44.29%) SaaS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure
3 15 (21.43%) AWS
4 9 (12.86%) GitHub
5 8 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) Serverless
7 4 (5.71%) Azure API Management
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Batch
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.29%) GCP
8 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (44.29%) 5G
1 31 (44.29%) Broadband
2 5 (7.14%) Firewall
3 4 (5.71%) Network Security
4 2 (2.86%) DNS
5 1 (1.43%) DHCP
5 1 (1.43%) HTTP
5 1 (1.43%) Internet
5 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.43%) SSL
5 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.43%) VLAN
5 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Big Data
2 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.29%) MySQL
3 3 (4.29%) OLTP
3 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.43%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
1 6 (8.57%) GitLab
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.29%) Burp Suite
3 3 (4.29%) Postman
3 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (2.86%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.86%) JIRA
4 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.43%) Darcs
5 1 (1.43%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.43%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.43%) Moq
5 1 (1.43%) RStudio
5 1 (1.43%) Selenium
5 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.43%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (45.71%) Law
2 31 (44.29%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Retail
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (44.29%) Penetration Tester
1 31 (44.29%) Security Penetration Tester
1 31 (44.29%) Security Specialist
1 31 (44.29%) Security Tester
1 31 (44.29%) Tester
1 31 (44.29%) Testing Specialist
2 10 (14.29%) Consultant
3 8 (11.43%) Security Consultant
4 7 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
6 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Lead
9 2 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (48.57%) Web Services
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.29%) JSON
3 3 (4.29%) Kafka
3 3 (4.29%) XML
4 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.86%) REST
4 2 (2.86%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.86%) Symfony
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.43%) React
5 1 (1.43%) Svelte
5 1 (1.43%) Swagger
5 1 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (48.57%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.57%) IoT
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.86%) PKI
4 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) CBDC
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.43%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (57.14%) Application Security
3 39 (55.71%) Security Testing
4 36 (51.43%) Penetration Testing
5 32 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (44.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 28 (40.00%) DevOps
8 14 (20.00%) Agile
9 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
10 11 (15.71%) DevSecOps
10 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
11 10 (14.29%) Microservices
12 8 (11.43%) SDLC
12 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
13 7 (10.00%) Information Security
13 7 (10.00%) TDD
14 6 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (8.57%) Secure Coding
14 6 (8.57%) Threat Modelling
14 6 (8.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) Java
2 6 (8.57%) C#
3 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.14%) Python
4 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.71%) SQL
5 3 (4.29%) Bash
5 3 (4.29%) PHP
5 3 (4.29%) Ruby
6 1 (1.43%) C
6 1 (1.43%) C++
6 1 (1.43%) Go
6 1 (1.43%) R
6 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 33 (47.14%) CREST Certified
2 33 (47.14%) SANS
3 31 (44.29%) GIAC
3 31 (44.29%) GPEN
3 31 (44.29%) OSCP
4 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) CISSP
5 4 (5.71%) Degree
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.86%) CEH
6 2 (2.86%) CISM
6 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.86%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (48.57%) PCI DSS
2 32 (45.71%) GDPR
2 32 (45.71%) NCSC
3 12 (17.14%) NIST
4 8 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.29%) COBIT
6 2 (2.86%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.43%) GRC
7 1 (1.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Terraform
2 9 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (4.29%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Nessus
4 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Graylog
5 2 (2.86%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (1.43%) Kibana
6 1 (1.43%) logstash
6 1 (1.43%) Nagios
6 1 (1.43%) Nmap
6 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.43%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) Virgin Media
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Splunk
4 2 (2.86%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.86%) F5
4 2 (2.86%) Qualys
5 1 (1.43%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (1.43%) Cadence
5 1 (1.43%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Imperva
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.43%) Remedy
5 1 (1.43%) Veracode