Security Testing Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Security 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 Security Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 110 116 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 5 13 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.232% 0.441% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.347% 0.681% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
Average daily rate £450 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £29.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +64.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Security Testing Daily Rate Trend

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Security Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Security Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 5 £450 -
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (85.71%) Automated Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 3 (42.86%) ISEB
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Load Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Games
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
6 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Ajax
6 1 (14.29%) SOA
6 1 (14.29%) HTTP
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) UNIX
6 1 (14.29%) OO

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) FitNesse
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (14.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Software Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Software Test Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Testing Manager
3 2 (28.57%) QA Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Automated Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
3 3 (42.86%) Load Testing
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
5 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) Groovy
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
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