The first table below looks at the demand for the Security 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 Security Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Tester
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Tester 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
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 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Security Tester
London

Security Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Security Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Security Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Security Tester Daily Rate Trend

Security Tester
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security 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 Security Tester in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Dutch Language
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) CEH
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP

Security Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Security 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 Security Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Dutch Language
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP