OWASP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 259 278 392
Rank change year-on-year +19 +114 +53
Contract jobs citing OWASP 45 67 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.44% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 54
10th Percentile £464 £463 £465
25th Percentile £533 £520 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +1.59%
75th Percentile £676 £638 £699
90th Percentile £785 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £638 £600 £556
% change year-on-year +6.25% +7.87% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OWASP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing OWASP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) GitHub
4 6 (13.33%) Slack
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
6 4 (8.89%) SonarCloud
7 3 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.22%) Akamai
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.22%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) HTTP
2 6 (13.33%) Firewall
3 3 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) FTP
4 2 (4.44%) SMTP
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) MySQL
2 6 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 7 (15.56%) JIRA
3 6 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (13.33%) Jasmine
3 6 (13.33%) JUnit
4 5 (11.11%) NUnit
5 4 (8.89%) GitLab
5 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
6 3 (6.67%) Snyk
7 2 (4.44%) Burp Suite
7 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.22%) JMeter
8 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.22%) Metasploit
8 1 (2.22%) NeoLoad
8 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Electronics
4 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Lead
2 13 (28.89%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Architect
3 9 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 8 (17.78%) .NET Developer
4 8 (17.78%) Senior
5 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Consultant
6 5 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Lead .NET Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Security Consultant
7 4 (8.89%) Information Security Consultant
7 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Java Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Security Technical Consultant
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (8.89%) Technical Security Consultant
8 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) .NET
2 11 (24.44%) RESTful
3 9 (20.00%) Spring
3 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 8 (17.78%) .NET Core
4 8 (17.78%) OAuth
4 8 (17.78%) Spring Security
5 6 (13.33%) OpenAPI
5 6 (13.33%) Swagger
6 5 (11.11%) OpenID
6 5 (11.11%) Spring Batch
7 4 (8.89%) ARM Templates
7 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.67%) GWT
8 3 (6.67%) JWT
8 3 (6.67%) REST
8 3 (6.67%) Servlets
9 1 (2.22%) HTML5
9 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
9 1 (2.22%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.44%) SCADA
4 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
1 6 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) DevOps
2 23 (51.11%) CI/CD
3 16 (35.56%) Agile
3 16 (35.56%) Microservices
3 16 (35.56%) TDD
4 15 (33.33%) Application Security
4 15 (33.33%) BDD
5 14 (31.11%) Cloud Security
5 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
6 12 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
7 11 (24.44%) Security Testing
8 10 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 10 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (20.00%) API Design
9 9 (20.00%) Information Security
10 8 (17.78%) DevSecOps
10 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
11 7 (15.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 7 (15.56%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) C#
2 11 (24.44%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) Bash
4 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.89%) Python
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) Ruby
6 1 (2.22%) Swift
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) CISSP
2 3 (6.67%) CEH
2 3 (6.67%) CISM
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) GIAC
4 1 (2.22%) GPEN
4 1 (2.22%) GWAPT
4 1 (2.22%) ISSAP
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) MCAD
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) OSCE
4 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) NIST
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.67%) NCSC
5 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.22%) COBIT
6 1 (2.22%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.22%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Google
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Imperva
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Veracode