Penetration Testing Contracts in Cambridge

Penetration Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £569 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £769 - -
90th Percentile £788 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £675 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Penetration 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 Cambridge with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 258 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.15% 87.76% 82.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 177 182
10th Percentile £235 £185 £313
25th Percentile £350 £300 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £594
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 15
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.12 £15.51
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £16.88
Median hourly rate £46.00 £20.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.39% -64.04% +153.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 - £74.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +3.45% +6.15% +1.19%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cambridge over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Audit Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk