The first table below looks at the demand for Security Testing skills 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 Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 188 209 235
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +26
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 17 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.264% 0.075% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.361% 0.105% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 3
Average daily rate £375 £525 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £465 £415
10% offered a daily rate of more than £532 £565 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +64.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4709 5713 6944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.25% 71.60% 71.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3551 4136 5135
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 96 98
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.00 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Security Testing
London

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Security Testing across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Security Testing Daily Rate Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Security Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Security Testing also 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 that cited Security Testing.

1 13 (46.43%) Internet
2 11 (39.29%) Penetration Testing
3 10 (35.71%) HP
4 8 (28.57%) TDD
4 8 (28.57%) Ajax
4 8 (28.57%) BDD
5 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
5 7 (25.00%) Redis
5 7 (25.00%) jQuery
5 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (25.00%) OWASP
5 7 (25.00%) Scrum
5 7 (25.00%) Web Services
5 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 7 (25.00%) Oracle
5 7 (25.00%) CSS
6 6 (21.43%) MySQL
6 6 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (21.43%) Finance
6 6 (21.43%) CruiseControl
6 6 (21.43%) TeamCity
6 6 (21.43%) Git (software)
6 6 (21.43%) Selenium
6 6 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 6 (21.43%) Automated Testing
6 6 (21.43%) JSON
6 6 (21.43%) Percona
6 6 (21.43%) Route 53

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Security Testing also 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 that cited Security Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (28.57%) Ajax
2 7 (25.00%) jQuery
2 7 (25.00%) Web Services
2 7 (25.00%) CSS
3 6 (21.43%) JSON
3 6 (21.43%) CSS3
3 6 (21.43%) HTML5
4 3 (10.71%) Spring
5 2 (7.143%) XML
5 2 (7.143%) J2EE
5 2 (7.143%) SOAP
5 2 (7.143%) soapUI
6 1 (3.571%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (3.571%) Sinatra
6 1 (3.571%) ASP
6 1 (3.571%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Route 53
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) Internet
2 4 (14.29%) HTTP
3 2 (7.143%) HTTPS
3 2 (7.143%) Firewall
3 2 (7.143%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (25.00%) Redis
2 6 (21.43%) MySQL
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.571%) SimpleDB
3 1 (3.571%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) CruiseControl
1 6 (21.43%) TeamCity
1 6 (21.43%) Git (software)
1 6 (21.43%) Selenium
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) LoadRunner
3 2 (7.143%) WinRunner
3 2 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.143%) JMeter
3 2 (7.143%) Hudson
3 2 (7.143%) AppScan
3 2 (7.143%) JIRA
3 2 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.571%) OpenSTA
4 1 (3.571%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (7.143%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.571%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Web Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Applications Specialist
2 6 (21.43%) Security Specialist
2 6 (21.43%) Front-End Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Front-End Web Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Mobile Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Tester
4 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Test Manager
5 2 (7.143%) Applications Tester
5 2 (7.143%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (7.143%) Security Tester
5 2 (7.143%) Non-Functional Tester
5 2 (7.143%) Web Tester
6 1 (3.571%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Performance Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Open Source
2 3 (10.71%) Data Conversion
3 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.143%) Ergonomics
4 1 (3.571%) Kindle
4 1 (3.571%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) UNIX
1 2 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (28.57%) TDD
2 8 (28.57%) BDD
3 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (25.00%) OWASP
3 7 (25.00%) Scrum
4 6 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 6 (21.43%) Automated Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 3 (10.71%) System Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
7 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (10.71%) Regression Testing
8 2 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (7.143%) Test Strategy
8 2 (7.143%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 2 (7.143%) C++
3 2 (7.143%) VBScript
3 2 (7.143%) VB
4 1 (3.571%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) ISEB
2 2 (7.143%) CISSP
2 2 (7.143%) CEH
2 2 (7.143%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.571%) COSO
2 1 (3.571%) COBIT
2 1 (3.571%) Basel III
2 1 (3.571%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.571%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.571%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) HP
2 7 (25.00%) Oracle
3 6 (21.43%) Percona
4 2 (7.143%) IBM
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