OWASP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 376 391
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing OWASP 42 68 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.33% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 77
10th Percentile £483 £425 £456
25th Percentile £550 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £634 £634 £613
90th Percentile £650 £702 £713
UK median daily rate £597 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +3.83% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the UK excluding London

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +19 17 £569 +3.41% 13
South East +38 14 £550 +10.00% 17
Yorkshire +6 11 £565 +7.62% 1
Scotland +46 7 £623 -4.23%
North West +18 6 £575 -4.17% 9
Wales +19 2 £666 +2.50% 2
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Midlands +5 1 - - 1
South West +3 1 - - 5
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) JBoss
1 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.38%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.90%) Cloudflare
6 4 (9.52%) Akamai
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.38%) GCP
8 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.95%) Firewall
2 10 (23.81%) Network Security
3 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) MySQL
1 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.05%) Git
3 7 (16.67%) Burp Suite
3 7 (16.67%) GitLab
3 7 (16.67%) Maven
4 6 (14.29%) Gradle
4 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.90%) AppScan
6 3 (7.14%) JIRA
7 2 (4.76%) Subversion
8 1 (2.38%) JUnit
General
1 4 (9.52%) Retail
2 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Automotive
3 1 (2.38%) Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Consultant
1 11 (26.19%) Security Consultant
2 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Development Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.38%) Java EE
2 1 (2.38%) JPA
2 1 (2.38%) JSP
2 1 (2.38%) JSTL
2 1 (2.38%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.38%) Servlets
2 1 (2.38%) Spring
2 1 (2.38%) STL
2 1 (2.38%) XML
2 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 3 (7.14%) IoT
6 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.76%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.38%) PKI
7 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 9 (21.43%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Application Security
2 19 (45.24%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (38.10%) DevOps
4 15 (35.71%) Information Security
5 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 12 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (26.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Security Management
8 9 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (21.43%) Information Security Management
8 9 (21.43%) ITIL
8 9 (21.43%) Security Testing
9 8 (19.05%) Conflict Resolution
9 8 (19.05%) Risk Management
9 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (16.67%) Budget Management
10 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) Ruby
3 7 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 6 (14.29%) Groovy
5 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) C
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) ISACA
2 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.76%) CCNP
3 2 (4.76%) SANS
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) CEH
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.38%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) OSCP
4 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) NIST
2 10 (23.81%) GDPR
3 9 (21.43%) COBIT
4 6 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 5 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (11.90%) QA
6 3 (7.14%) GRC
7 2 (4.76%) NCSC
8 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Ansible
2 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Grafana
3 6 (14.29%) Graylog
3 6 (14.29%) HP Fortify
3 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.90%) Nessus
4 5 (11.90%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.90%) Puppet
4 5 (11.90%) WebInspect
5 2 (4.76%) Nagios
6 1 (2.38%) Nmap
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Checkmarx
1 6 (14.29%) Splunk
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Veracode
3 4 (9.52%) F5
4 1 (2.38%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.38%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.38%) Imperva
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.38%) VMware