Penetration Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.52% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile - - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.42%
75th Percentile £422 - £609
90th Percentile £461 - £634
England median daily rate £590 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.13% +14.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 918 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.27% 88.10% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 691 885
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £272 £335 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £611
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 74 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £11.80 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +0.31% +19.90%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Derbyshire - 3 £400 -
Leicestershire - 1 £475 - 3
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Information Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared