OWASP Contracts in Leeds

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 77 104
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing OWASP 9 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.35% 0.10% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.11% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile £778 - £530
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +40.00% - +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 572 896 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.63% 89.87% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 621 1,065
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £405 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -7.86% -1.81% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 20
10th Percentile £15.54 £18.50 £10.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.97 £16.65
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.31 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +0.28% +3.66%
75th Percentile £41.50 £22.86 £22.94
90th Percentile £61.75 £39.05 £28.61
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £20.71 £21.09
% change year-on-year +56.97% -1.80% +20.49%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Leeds

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Slack
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 6 (66.67%) Jasmine
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
1 6 (66.67%) JUnit
2 5 (55.56%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 6 (66.67%) Swagger
2 5 (55.56%) OpenAPI
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Security
3 4 (44.44%) Spring Batch
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) API Design
1 6 (66.67%) BDD
1 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (55.56%) Kernel Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Operational Stability
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Bash
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (22.22%) CCSP
2 2 (22.22%) CEH
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) OSCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (22.22%) COBIT
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft