The first table below looks at the demand for Security 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 Security Testing over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 43 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 29 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.831% 1.011% 0.164%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.216% 1.413% 0.244%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 1
Average daily rate £275 £453 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.22% +9.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £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 - £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +64.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Security Testing
West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Testing across the Leeds region.

Leeds Security Testing Daily Rate Trend

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 29 (96.67%) MySQL
1 29 (96.67%) Oracle
1 29 (96.67%) Web Services
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon EC2
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon S3
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon AWS
1 29 (96.67%) MongoDB
1 29 (96.67%) Redis
1 29 (96.67%) Route 53
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (93.33%) Internet
3 27 (90.00%) Percona
4 24 (80.00%) Client/Server
5 22 (73.33%) Java
6 19 (63.33%) PHP
6 19 (63.33%) Python
6 19 (63.33%) Linux
6 19 (63.33%) Apache
6 19 (63.33%) C++
6 19 (63.33%) Telecoms
6 19 (63.33%) TDD
6 19 (63.33%) Ruby
6 19 (63.33%) Kanban
6 19 (63.33%) Node.js
6 19 (63.33%) Bash shell
6 19 (63.33%) Test Automation
6 19 (63.33%) nginx
7 18 (60.00%) DNS
8 17 (56.67%) JavaScript
8 17 (56.67%) Perl

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 29 (96.67%) Web Services
2 19 (63.33%) Node.js
3 17 (56.67%) jQuery
3 17 (56.67%) HTML5
4 12 (40.00%) REST
4 12 (40.00%) CSS3
4 12 (40.00%) Spring
4 12 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 12 (40.00%) J2EE
4 12 (40.00%) CSS
4 12 (40.00%) SOAP
5 5 (16.67%) Java EE
5 5 (16.67%) Ajax
5 5 (16.67%) JSON
6 2 (6.667%) POSIX
6 2 (6.667%) ASP
6 2 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon EC2
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon S3
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon AWS
1 29 (96.67%) Route 53
2 19 (63.33%) Apache
2 19 (63.33%) nginx
3 12 (40.00%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (23.33%) Tomcat
4 7 (23.33%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (93.33%) Internet
2 18 (60.00%) DNS
3 12 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
4 11 (36.67%) DHCP
4 11 (36.67%) SSL
5 9 (30.00%) HTTP
6 1 (3.333%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (96.67%) MySQL
1 29 (96.67%) MongoDB
1 29 (96.67%) Redis
1 29 (96.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.667%) SimpleDB
2 2 (6.667%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.667%) Couchbase
2 2 (6.667%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Git (software)
1 17 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (40.00%) Maven
3 5 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 19 (63.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.333%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 24 (80.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) TDD
1 19 (63.33%) Kanban
1 19 (63.33%) Test Automation
2 17 (56.67%) Scrum
2 17 (56.67%) BDD
3 12 (40.00%) SOA
3 12 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 11 (36.67%) Load Balancing
5 10 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 10 (33.33%) Capacity Management
6 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Automated Testing
8 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.667%) Network Design
9 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Java
2 19 (63.33%) PHP
2 19 (63.33%) Python
2 19 (63.33%) C++
2 19 (63.33%) Ruby
2 19 (63.33%) Bash shell
3 17 (56.67%) JavaScript
3 17 (56.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (96.67%) Oracle
2 27 (90.00%) Percona
3 12 (40.00%) hybris
3 12 (40.00%) Adobe
4 1 (3.333%) Informatica