OWASP Contracts in Wales

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing OWASP 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.49% 0.17% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.20% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £644 - -
25th Percentile £652 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £679 - £713
90th Percentile £686 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +13.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 512 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 71.22% 87.82% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 390 574
10th Percentile £143 £180 £201
25th Percentile £297 £314 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £575
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 28
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.63 £12.78
25th Percentile £15.41 £16.98 £16.08
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -15.11% +4.12%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £28.38
90th Percentile £85.50 £49.38 £47.03
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Wales

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Wales

OWASP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
South Wales +20 2 £666 +2.50% 1
OWASP
UK

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode