OWASP Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 394 417
Rank change year-on-year +82 +23 -42
Contract jobs citing OWASP 33 76 207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.35% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 123
10th Percentile £463 £468 £450
25th Percentile £518 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - +16.16%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £621
90th Percentile £665 £750 £705
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £94.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OWASP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OWASP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

OWASP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OWASP.

OWASP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.12%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) Azure API Management
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Batch
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Storage
6 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.09%) PowerApps
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.06%) AWS IoT
7 2 (6.06%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) Big Data
2 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL
3 3 (9.09%) OLTP
3 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Hazelcast
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.06%) Postman
4 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) AppScan
5 1 (3.03%) Darcs
5 1 (3.03%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Mercurial
5 1 (3.03%) RStudio
5 1 (3.03%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Retail
3 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.03%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Consultant
2 7 (21.21%) Security Consultant
3 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 5 (15.15%) .NET
3 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (9.09%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 3 (9.09%) Web Services
3 3 (9.09%) XML
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) Symfony
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.03%) CSS
5 1 (3.03%) HTML
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) IoT
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.06%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) CBDC
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Digital Currency
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 9 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 8 (24.24%) Information Security
5 8 (24.24%) Microservices
5 8 (24.24%) Security Testing
5 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.21%) Application Security
6 7 (21.21%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (18.18%) SDLC
7 6 (18.18%) Secure Coding
7 6 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (15.15%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (12.12%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (12.12%) Kanban
9 4 (12.12%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) PHP
4 3 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) C
6 1 (3.03%) C++
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) R
6 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CISSP
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) CISM
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) CEH
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) CREST Certified
4 2 (6.06%) CSSLP
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) SANS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) NIST
2 9 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.09%) COBIT
3 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.06%) ISO 22301
5 1 (3.03%) GDPR
5 1 (3.03%) GRC
5 1 (3.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (3.03%) NCSC
5 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Nessus
3 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Graylog
4 2 (6.06%) HP Fortify
4 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Kibana
5 1 (3.03%) logstash
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
5 1 (3.03%) Nmap
5 1 (3.03%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Checkmarx
3 2 (6.06%) Qualys
4 1 (3.03%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.03%) Darktrace
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.03%) Veracode
4 1 (3.03%) VMware