OWASP Contracts

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 564 524
Rank change year-on-year +70 -40 -72
Contract jobs citing OWASP 90 133 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.27% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 83 216
10th Percentile £458 £450 £450
25th Percentile £520 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +13.86%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £638
90th Percentile £850 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £594 £581 £550
% change year-on-year +2.19% +5.68% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile £46.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £94.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -32.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OWASP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OWASP.

Hourly rate trend for OWASP in the UK

OWASP
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +53 77 £600 +4.35% 47
UK excluding London +4 43 £594 +2.19% 28
London +85 38 £648 +12.61% 22
Work from Home +76 30 £550 -4.35% 33
North of England +6 16 £558 -4.09% 6
South East +19 14 £550 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire +8 9 £550 -0.12% 1
Scotland +54 7 £623 +10.67%
North West +12 7 £575 -12.55% 5
South West +1 4 £600 - 4
Wales +22 2 £666 +2.50% 1

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.22%) nginx
3 1 (1.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.78%) Azure
2 31 (34.44%) AWS
3 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) GitHub
5 7 (7.78%) Akamai
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.78%) Serverless
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.67%) Azure API Management
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Batch
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) Firewall
2 13 (14.44%) Network Security
3 5 (5.56%) DNS
4 4 (4.44%) Internet
4 4 (4.44%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.33%) HTTP
6 2 (2.22%) DHCP
6 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.22%) WAN
6 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.22%) Wireless
7 1 (1.11%) FTP
7 1 (1.11%) SSL
7 1 (1.11%) VLAN
7 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.00%) MySQL
3 8 (8.89%) Big Data
3 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.78%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.67%) OLTP
6 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.11%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) Git
2 16 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.33%) Burp Suite
4 8 (8.89%) Maven
5 7 (7.78%) Gradle
5 7 (7.78%) SonarQube
6 6 (6.67%) AppScan
6 6 (6.67%) GitLab
6 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio Team System
7 4 (4.44%) JIRA
8 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.33%) Postman
8 3 (3.33%) Subversion
9 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.22%) RStudio
10 1 (1.11%) Darcs
10 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.11%) Mercurial
10 1 (1.11%) Mockito
10 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (16.67%) Finance
2 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Retail
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
4 6 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Consultant
2 17 (18.89%) Security Consultant
3 16 (17.78%) Architect
3 16 (17.78%) Security Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior
8 6 (6.67%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) Site Manager
9 5 (5.56%) Site Reliability Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Tester
11 3 (3.33%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Penetration Tester
12 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.22%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) .NET
1 8 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (8.89%) Kafka
2 7 (7.78%) XML
3 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 6 (6.67%) JSON
3 6 (6.67%) Web Services
4 3 (3.33%) gRPC
4 3 (3.33%) WebSockets
5 2 (2.22%) OAuth
5 2 (2.22%) Spring
5 2 (2.22%) Symfony
6 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.11%) CSS
6 1 (1.11%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.11%) Java EE
6 1 (1.11%) JSTL
6 1 (1.11%) SAML
6 1 (1.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (7.78%) IoT
2 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.22%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.11%) CBDC
7 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.11%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 15 (16.67%) Windows
3 10 (11.11%) Unix
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (40.00%) Application Security
3 34 (37.78%) DevOps
4 25 (27.78%) Information Security
5 24 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 21 (23.33%) Agile
7 18 (20.00%) Security Testing
7 18 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (15.56%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.56%) Penetration Testing
9 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Migration
10 12 (13.33%) Security Management
10 12 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.22%) Cryptography
11 11 (12.22%) Information Security Management
11 11 (12.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) Python
2 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 14 (15.56%) Java
4 13 (14.44%) Bash
4 13 (14.44%) C#
5 8 (8.89%) Ruby
5 8 (8.89%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.67%) Groovy
7 4 (4.44%) Go
8 3 (3.33%) C
8 3 (3.33%) C++
8 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.33%) PHP
8 3 (3.33%) SQL
9 2 (2.22%) Perl
9 2 (2.22%) R
10 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (7.78%) ISACA
2 6 (6.67%) CREST Certified
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) CISM
4 4 (4.44%) CISSP
4 4 (4.44%) OSCP
4 4 (4.44%) SANS
4 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.33%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.22%) CCNP
6 2 (2.22%) CEH
6 2 (2.22%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) GIAC
6 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.56%) NIST
2 19 (21.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (14.44%) COBIT
4 12 (13.33%) GDPR
4 12 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.89%) QA
6 6 (6.67%) NCSC
7 3 (3.33%) GRC
8 2 (2.22%) ISO 22301
9 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
9 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 18 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (27.78%) Terraform
2 20 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.56%) Ansible
4 8 (8.89%) Grafana
4 8 (8.89%) Nessus
4 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.78%) Graylog
5 7 (7.78%) HP Fortify
5 7 (7.78%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.78%) Puppet
6 6 (6.67%) WebInspect
7 3 (3.33%) Nagios
8 2 (2.22%) CASB
8 2 (2.22%) SCCM
8 2 (2.22%) SCOrch
8 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.11%) Kibana
9 1 (1.11%) logstash
9 1 (1.11%) Nmap
9 1 (1.11%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.11%) Splunk
3 8 (8.89%) F5
4 7 (7.78%) Checkmarx
5 6 (6.67%) Imperva
5 6 (6.67%) Veracode
6 4 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.44%) Qualys
6 4 (4.44%) SAP
6 4 (4.44%) Unisys
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle
8 2 (2.22%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.22%) Netskope
8 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.22%) VMware
9 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.11%) Google
9 1 (1.11%) Okta
9 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow