OWASP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring OWASP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 80 104
Rank change year-on-year -39 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing OWASP 14 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 1.02% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £633 £650 £525
25th Percentile £663 £665 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £695 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +26.21% +10.14%
75th Percentile - £756 £578
90th Percentile - £777 £588
England median daily rate £575 £680 £600
% change year-on-year -15.44% +13.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,631 1,095 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.81% 85.88% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 646 1,051
10th Percentile £250 £235 £300
25th Percentile £381 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £678 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 35 24
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.55 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%
75th Percentile £25.49 £36.25 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £50.35 £40.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OWASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

OWASP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing OWASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing OWASP

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 Yorkshire - 14 £700 - 2
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 6 (42.86%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Akamai
3 3 (21.43%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) SNMP
1 6 (42.86%) SSH
1 6 (42.86%) SSL
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) HTTP
2 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
General
1 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Cryptography Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (42.86%) Cryptography
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Data Security
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Observability
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Application Security
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) FFIEC
2 3 (21.43%) CEH
2 3 (21.43%) GIAC
2 3 (21.43%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) GDPR
1 6 (42.86%) GLBA
1 6 (42.86%) NIST
1 6 (42.86%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) F5
2 6 (42.86%) Splunk
3 5 (35.71%) Thales
4 3 (21.43%) Imperva