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Penetration Tester Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Penetration Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Penetration Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Tester
Rank 209 209 250
Rank change year-on-year
0 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Penetration Tester 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.015% 0.039% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.042% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £450 £525 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £325 £425
% change year-on-year
+11.53% -23.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £60.00 - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Penetration Tester
London

Penetration Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Tester across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Penetration Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Penetration Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Penetration Tester across the City of London region.

City of London Penetration Tester Daily Rate Trend

Penetration Tester
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Penetration Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Penetration Tester in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Debian
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (50.00%) GDB
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) CEH
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Dutch Language
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) STB
4 1 (16.67%) ASP

Penetration Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Penetration Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Penetration Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) ASP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GDB
General
1 1 (16.67%) Dutch Language
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Debian
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HP
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