The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Penetration Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Penetration Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior Penetration Tester
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Penetration Tester 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
58 73 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 98.31% 93.59% 80.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 36
Average daily rate £450 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £150 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £453 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
Average hourly rate £20.00 £10.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.47% -77.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Penetration Tester
London

Senior Penetration Tester
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region that cited Senior Penetration Tester in their job title 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 with Senior Penetration Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) STB
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) GDB

Senior Penetration Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region that cited Senior Penetration Tester in their job title 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 with Senior Penetration Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell