Security Testing Contracts in England

Security Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 466 555
Rank change year-on-year +79 +89 -69
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 150 167 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 104 166
10th Percentile £425 £438 £363
25th Percentile £525 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £673
90th Percentile £780 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +99 93 £635 +3.67% 19
South East +14 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North of England +24 11 £475 -17.39% 16
North West +22 10 £475 -5.00% 6
South West +20 8 £590 -1.67% 8
Midlands +17 3 £390 -46.21% 8
East of England +9 3 £700 -15.15% 5
West Midlands 0 2 £425 -41.38% 5
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 9
East Midlands +16 1 £355 -40.83% 3
Security Testing
UK

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.67%) Apache
1 10 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (6.67%) nginx
2 4 (2.67%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) Azure
2 33 (22.00%) AWS
3 22 (14.67%) Serverless
4 21 (14.00%) SaaS
5 16 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.33%) PaaS
7 13 (8.67%) IaaS
8 12 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 7 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.33%) Azure API Management
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.33%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.00%) VPN
2 14 (9.33%) BGP
3 12 (8.00%) Firewall
4 10 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (6.67%) MPLS
5 9 (6.00%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (3.33%) LAN
7 4 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.67%) IPsec
7 4 (2.67%) OSPF
7 4 (2.67%) WAN
7 4 (2.67%) Wireless
7 4 (2.67%) WLAN
8 3 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (2.00%) DNS
9 1 (0.67%) HTTP
9 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 13 (8.67%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.67%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (12.00%) Git
1 18 (12.00%) JIRA
2 16 (10.67%) GitLab
3 13 (8.67%) TestRail
3 13 (8.67%) Visual Studio
4 10 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.67%) Robot Framework
5 8 (5.33%) Postman
6 7 (4.67%) NUnit
7 5 (3.33%) Burp Suite
7 5 (3.33%) Selenium
8 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.00%) FitNesse
9 3 (2.00%) JMeter
9 3 (2.00%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.00%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.67%) AppScan
10 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 35 (23.33%) Finance
2 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.00%) Banking
4 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.00%) Back Office
7 3 (2.00%) Electronics
7 3 (2.00%) Front Office
7 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Automotive
8 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Architect
1 29 (19.33%) Senior
2 22 (14.67%) Test Engineer
3 20 (13.33%) Developer
3 20 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 14 (9.33%) Security Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Tester
6 10 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (6.00%) Consultant
7 9 (6.00%) Senior Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Cloud Security Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Security Consultant
8 8 (5.33%) Senior Security Architect
9 7 (4.67%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.67%) Security Manager
9 7 (4.67%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.33%) REST
2 17 (11.33%) SOAP
3 14 (9.33%) CSS
4 13 (8.67%) HTML
5 12 (8.00%) Sass
6 11 (7.33%) Laravel
6 11 (7.33%) WebSockets
7 10 (6.67%) .NET
7 10 (6.67%) NETCONF
7 10 (6.67%) RESTCONF
8 9 (6.00%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.00%) Playwright
8 9 (6.00%) YANG
9 7 (4.67%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.00%) Node.js
11 5 (3.33%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.33%) XML
12 4 (2.67%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Security Posture
2 15 (10.00%) IoT
3 13 (8.67%) Mobile App
4 10 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) PKI
7 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.00%) PMI
8 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.33%) Linux
2 10 (6.67%) Unix
3 8 (5.33%) Windows
4 6 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (4.00%) Solaris
4 6 (4.00%) VMS
5 5 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.00%) Test Automation
2 52 (34.67%) CI/CD
3 45 (30.00%) Agile
3 45 (30.00%) Application Security
4 44 (29.33%) DevOps
5 32 (21.33%) DevSecOps
6 31 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
8 24 (16.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 24 (16.00%) Performance Testing
8 24 (16.00%) SDLC
9 23 (15.33%) Scrum
10 22 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (13.33%) TDD
12 19 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (12.67%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (12.00%) Integration Testing
13 18 (12.00%) Load Testing
13 18 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
14 17 (11.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.67%) SQL
2 22 (14.67%) Python
3 16 (10.67%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.67%) PHP
5 11 (7.33%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.00%) Java
8 4 (2.67%) C#
9 3 (2.00%) C
10 2 (1.33%) Bash
10 2 (1.33%) C++
10 2 (1.33%) Perl
10 2 (1.33%) Ruby
10 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (17.33%) Degree
2 15 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.33%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.00%) CISSP
6 8 (5.33%) CISM
7 6 (4.00%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.67%) CISA
8 4 (2.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.00%) CREST Certified
9 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.33%) ISEB
10 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.33%) OSCP
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.67%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.33%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.00%) NIST
3 13 (8.67%) QA
4 10 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.33%) GDPR
6 5 (3.33%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.67%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (16.67%) Docker
2 7 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.00%) KVM
3 6 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (14.67%) Terraform
2 11 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (2.00%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.00%) SCCM
5 2 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.67%) Graylog
6 1 (0.67%) Kibana
6 1 (0.67%) Nagios
6 1 (0.67%) Nessus
6 1 (0.67%) Nmap
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) Puppet
6 1 (0.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.00%) Oracle
3 11 (7.33%) VMware
4 7 (4.67%) SAP
5 5 (3.33%) Qualys
6 4 (2.67%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.67%) Cisco
6 4 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.67%) Juniper
6 4 (2.67%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.67%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.67%) Veracode
6 4 (2.67%) WSO2
7 3 (2.00%) CA
7 3 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.33%) Databricks
9 1 (0.67%) Adobe
9 1 (0.67%) Rapid7