OWASP Contracts in Manchester

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 105 122
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing OWASP 6 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.39% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.43% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £503 £590 £410
25th Percentile £530 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £690 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +31.43% -
75th Percentile £669 £700 £550
90th Percentile £725 £715 £613
North West median daily rate £575 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,241 1,617 2,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.30% 90.49% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,187 1,835
10th Percentile £325 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.07%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year -23.83% +49.64% +29.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Records Management
4 1 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Red Team
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
1 5 (83.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (16.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Rapid7