Edinburgh Security Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security Testing skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Testing over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Testing
Location Berkshire Bracknell City of London Edinburgh England London Manchester Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Scotland South East South Wales South West Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.454 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	441	680
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.677 %
Daily rates quoted	127	166
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£341
Average daily rate	£288	£358
% change on same period last year	-19.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.90	£33.98
Average hourly rate	£28.85	£36.02
% change on same period last year	-19.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.80	£38.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Security Testing Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Security Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Security Testing across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Security Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 1 2 (66.67 %) Blackberry 1 2 (66.67 %) Pensions 1 2 (66.67 %) V-Model 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Ethical Hacking 2 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) ISEB

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67 %) WebServices	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Pensions 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Tester	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Blackberry
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) V-Model 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Information Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Ethical Hacking 2 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB