The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 5.085% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.882% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £438 - -
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
51 60 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 86.44% 76.92% 60.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 23
Average daily rate £450 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £244 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Penetration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (60.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) C++
4 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) STB
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) GDB
5 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Java

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GDB
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Tester
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Security Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (60.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) Java
Hounslow, Middlesex
Key Skills Ethical hacking (CREST Certified) Linux. Programming languages: C and Java... netcat, hping, gdb, etc... Proficient with neat, maintainable and documented bash shell scripting, ASM (preferably MIPS),...
Experis IT
Rate: TBC
Posted: 17 May 2013