OWASP Contracts in Yorkshire

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 96 102
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +43
Contract jobs citing OWASP 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.59% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.71% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £326 £515 £460
25th Percentile £355 £553 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% +8.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £455 £650 £576
90th Percentile £482 £713 £603
England median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -

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 1,361 1,274 1,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.08% 83.21% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 777 1,202
10th Percentile £263 £313 £282
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 31
10th Percentile £16.50 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.46 £36.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Yorkshire

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 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 4 August 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
West Yorkshire -7 3 £500 -15.82% 3
South Yorkshire - 1 £313 -
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
3 1 (25.00%) Dropwizard
3 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Iteration Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform