The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 East of England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 115 121 121
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.047% 0.441% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.683% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Average daily rate £450 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1419 1903 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.93% 64.51% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 915 788
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 155 189
Average hourly rate £35.14 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.50 £13.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Penetration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Penetration Testing across the East of England region.

East of England Penetration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Testing across the East of England region.

East of England Penetration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire - 1 £450 -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Penetration 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 Penetration Testing.

1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) CQRS

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Penetration 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 Penetration Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Forensics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
Cambridgeshire, South East
Providing knowledge and insight into both emerging technologies and new opportunities around existing technologies Scope of the Software Developer / .Net Developer role: - Developing and supporting enterprise scale applications...
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