Penetration Testing Contracts in Central London

Penetration Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 160 178
Rank change year-on-year +41 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 11 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 15
10th Percentile £438 £423 -
25th Percentile £525 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +7.14% -16.00%
75th Percentile £725 £666 £608
90th Percentile £748 £808 £680
London median daily rate £589 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -1.88% +3.45% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,197 3,522 4,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.56% 91.36% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,378 3,189
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.44% +9.43%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 41
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.75
London median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -25.64% +7.11% +12.03%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Central London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Central London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in Central London

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
City of London +44 11 £700 +24.44% 6
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle CX
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) CRM Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (9.09%) CSOC
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Application Security
4 3 (27.27%) Data Encryption
4 3 (27.27%) Database Security
4 3 (27.27%) Key Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Auditing
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.09%) CRM
6 1 (9.09%) Project Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) C++
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CISM
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) CRISC
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Intel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce