Hybrid/Remote OWASP Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 286 240
Rank change year-on-year +25 -46 +143
Contract jobs citing OWASP 52 30 128
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.27% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.30% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 33
10th Percentile £425 £534 £463
25th Percentile £500 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £728 £688
90th Percentile £711 £783 £731
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £617
% change year-on-year -14.81% +9.40% +12.18%

All Process & 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 9,155 9,844 14,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.58% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,014 6,207 9,574
10th Percentile £330 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 184 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £15.95
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -29.72% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OWASP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OWASP

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Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OWASP over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

OWASP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OWASP
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OWASP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OWASP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 17 (32.69%) GitHub
4 12 (23.08%) GCP
5 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.46%) Akamai
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) SaaS
7 5 (9.62%) Serverless
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.69%) Route 53
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) Firewall
2 8 (15.38%) Wireshark
3 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 4 (7.69%) HTTPS
4 3 (5.77%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) DynamoDB
1 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.77%) Redis
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.85%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) GitLab
2 9 (17.31%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.38%) Metasploit
4 7 (13.46%) Burp Suite
5 6 (11.54%) JMeter
5 6 (11.54%) Snyk
5 6 (11.54%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.69%) Gatling
6 4 (7.69%) JIRA
6 4 (7.69%) JUnit
6 4 (7.69%) Mockito
7 3 (5.77%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.85%) Gradle
8 2 (3.85%) Maven
8 2 (3.85%) Newman
8 2 (3.85%) Postman
8 2 (3.85%) Selenium
8 2 (3.85%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Penetration Tester
2 8 (15.38%) Tester
3 6 (11.54%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Security Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) RESTful
2 8 (15.38%) REST
3 6 (11.54%) JSON
4 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.69%) JWT
5 4 (7.69%) Kafka
6 3 (5.77%) Loki
6 3 (5.77%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.77%) scikit-learn
6 3 (5.77%) Spring
6 3 (5.77%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (5.77%) TensorFlow
6 3 (5.77%) XML
7 2 (3.85%) Celery
7 2 (3.85%) Dropwizard
7 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.85%) J2EE
7 2 (3.85%) Micronaut
7 2 (3.85%) Node.js
7 2 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.31%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) CCTV
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Kali Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 21 (40.38%) Test Automation
3 17 (32.69%) DevOps
4 16 (30.77%) DevSecOps
4 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (28.85%) Agile
5 15 (28.85%) Application Security
5 15 (28.85%) Threat Modelling
6 14 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
8 12 (23.08%) AI
8 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (23.08%) Security Testing
9 11 (21.15%) Risk Management
10 10 (19.23%) Ethical Hacking
11 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
11 9 (17.31%) Event-Driven
11 9 (17.31%) Secure Coding
12 8 (15.38%) Cloud Security
12 8 (15.38%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) Bash
2 6 (11.54%) Java
2 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.69%) SQL
4 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) Ruby
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) CEH
4 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) GPEN
4 4 (7.69%) OSCP
5 3 (5.77%) GIAC
5 3 (5.77%) GWAPT
6 2 (3.85%) Degree
6 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.92%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.92%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (1.92%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (17.31%) NIST
3 5 (9.62%) EU AI Act
4 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.77%) NCSC
4 3 (5.77%) QA
5 2 (3.85%) GDPR
6 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Terraform
2 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.46%) Nmap
4 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.62%) CSIRT
6 4 (7.69%) Ansible
7 3 (5.77%) Grafana
7 3 (5.77%) Nessus
8 1 (1.92%) Istio
8 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.92%) SCCM
8 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) F5
2 4 (7.69%) Imperva
2 4 (7.69%) Splunk
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) Gigya
5 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.92%) Clearswift
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) Tenable
5 1 (1.92%) Veracode
5 1 (1.92%) VMware