Penetration Testing Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Penetration 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 Leeds 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
Penetration Testing
Rank 75 62 56
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -6
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.134% 0.674% 0.160%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.181% 0.936% 0.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £425 £453 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 552 641 425
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 74.09% 72.02% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 211
Average daily rate £315 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.85% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Penetration Testing
West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Penetration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Leeds region.

Leeds Penetration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Document Management
1 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
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