The first table below looks at the demand for GWAPT in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GWAPT over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
Rank 387 409 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 5 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.022% 0.015% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.148% 0.104% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £475 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3372 3832 4119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.62% 14.39% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2016 2331 2405
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 111 139
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.25 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £41.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
GWAPT
England

GWAPT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GWAPT across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London GWAPT Jobs Demand Trend

GWAPT
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GWAPT Daily Rate Trend

GWAPT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GWAPT 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 GWAPT.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Perl
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 10 (100.00%) IIS
1 10 (100.00%) COM+
1 10 (100.00%) SOAP
1 10 (100.00%) Web Services
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) XSLT
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) JBoss
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
1 10 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 10 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) GIAC
1 10 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 10 (100.00%) PKI
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 10 (100.00%) Java EE
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Imperva
1 10 (100.00%) F5

GWAPT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GWAPT 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 GWAPT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) COM+
1 10 (100.00%) SOAP
1 10 (100.00%) Web Services
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) XSLT
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 10 (100.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 10 (100.00%) IIS
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 10 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) GIAC
1 10 (100.00%) GPEN
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) JBoss
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 10 (100.00%) Imperva
1 10 (100.00%) F5