Security Testing Contracts in Central London

Security Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 159 180
Rank change year-on-year +34 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 8 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.33% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £538 £600 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +42.11% -11.63%
75th Percentile £668 £819 £540
90th Percentile £681 £858 £638
London median daily rate £648 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +7.92% +4.35% +0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,413 4,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.28% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,322 3,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Central London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Central London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Central London

Security 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 Security Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +38 8 £623 -11.07% 1
Security Testing
London

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (12.50%) AppScan
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Modeller
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) FpML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) JAXB
1 1 (12.50%) Laravel
1 1 (12.50%) Sass
1 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) XML Schema
1 1 (12.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Solaris
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ISEB
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) SANS
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) KVM
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Graylog
1 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Veracode