Security Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Security Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 100 126
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 -36
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 57 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.89% 0.66% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 0.73% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 7
10th Percentile - £478 £425
25th Percentile £500 £555 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +15.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £575
90th Percentile £648 £694 £579
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.68% -3.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Testing 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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,652 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 91.07% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,062 1,384
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Reading +15 31 £575 -5.15%
Newbury +7 9 £475 -26.92%
Maidenhead - 7 - -
Wokingham - 5 - -
Bracknell - 5 - -
Security Testing
South East

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 11 (19.30%) Apache
1 11 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) PaaS
1 32 (56.14%) SaaS
2 31 (54.39%) IaaS
3 13 (22.81%) Azure
4 9 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
4 9 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Azure API Management
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (8.77%) Serverless
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Figma
8 1 (1.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 31 (54.39%) 5G
1 31 (54.39%) Broadband
2 11 (19.30%) BGP
2 11 (19.30%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (19.30%) MPLS
2 11 (19.30%) Radio Access Network
2 11 (19.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) NoSQL
2 11 (19.30%) MongoDB
2 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) JIRA
2 11 (19.30%) GitLab
2 11 (19.30%) Robot Framework
2 11 (19.30%) TestRail
3 6 (10.53%) Git
3 6 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.75%) rollup.js
4 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 31 (54.39%) Law
1 31 (54.39%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (56.14%) Tester
2 31 (54.39%) Penetration Tester
2 31 (54.39%) Security Penetration Tester
2 31 (54.39%) Security Specialist
2 31 (54.39%) Security Tester
2 31 (54.39%) Testing Specialist
3 10 (17.54%) Network Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Designer
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
4 5 (8.77%) Lead Designer
5 4 (7.02%) Integration Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Development Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Security Consultant
8 1 (1.75%) Applications Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Applications Support
8 1 (1.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (54.39%) Web Services
2 14 (24.56%) REST
2 14 (24.56%) SOAP
3 11 (19.30%) NETCONF
3 11 (19.30%) RESTCONF
3 11 (19.30%) YANG
4 6 (10.53%) CSS
5 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.77%) ARM Templates
5 5 (8.77%) HTML
5 5 (8.77%) Node.js
6 4 (7.02%) XML
7 3 (5.26%) .NET
7 3 (5.26%) JSON
7 3 (5.26%) OAuth
7 3 (5.26%) OpenID
8 1 (1.75%) NumPy
8 1 (1.75%) React
8 1 (1.75%) Redux
8 1 (1.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (54.39%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.75%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) Application Security
2 33 (57.89%) OWASP
3 31 (54.39%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (54.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 31 (54.39%) Penetration Testing
3 31 (54.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
5 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 17 (29.82%) Integration Testing
7 16 (28.07%) Agile
7 16 (28.07%) Unit Testing
8 13 (22.81%) Workflow
9 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
9 11 (19.30%) DevOps
9 11 (19.30%) Performance Testing
9 11 (19.30%) Regression Testing
9 11 (19.30%) Scrum
10 6 (10.53%) Break/Fix
10 6 (10.53%) Data-Driven Testing
10 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 13 (22.81%) Python
3 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.77%) PHP
5 3 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
2 31 (54.39%) CREST Certified
2 31 (54.39%) GIAC
2 31 (54.39%) GPEN
2 31 (54.39%) OSCP
2 31 (54.39%) SANS
3 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (54.39%) GDPR
1 31 (54.39%) NCSC
1 31 (54.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
Vendors
1 31 (54.39%) Virgin Media
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Adobe
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks