Penetration Testing Contracts in London

Penetration Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 349 479
Rank change year-on-year +54 +130 -75
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 99 146 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.59% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 93 77
10th Percentile £428 £450 £350
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £675
90th Percentile £775 £837 £785
England median daily rate £590 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.13% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £83.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Penetration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East London +5 11 £585 +8.33% 2
Central London +31 9 £700 +24.44% 10
South London - 1 - -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.05%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.19%) Azure
2 12 (12.12%) AWS
3 11 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.06%) SaaS
5 3 (3.03%) GitHub
5 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.01%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.17%) Firewall
2 11 (11.11%) Network Security
2 11 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 11 (11.11%) WAN
3 6 (6.06%) Wireless
4 2 (2.02%) Internet
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.01%) DHCP
5 1 (1.01%) DNS
5 1 (1.01%) FTP
5 1 (1.01%) HTTP
5 1 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.01%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.01%) DB2
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.10%) GitLab
3 8 (8.08%) Burp Suite
4 4 (4.04%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.03%) Metasploit
6 1 (1.01%) JIRA
6 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (37.37%) Finance
2 22 (22.22%) Banking
3 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.03%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.01%) Law
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.20%) Consultant
2 16 (16.16%) Security Consultant
3 13 (13.13%) Architect
3 13 (13.13%) Security Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Security Architect
5 11 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Penetration Tester
6 7 (7.07%) Tester
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Consultant
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Security Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Ethical Hacker
9 4 (4.04%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) EDI
1 1 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (10.10%) Mobile App
2 10 (10.10%) PKI
3 9 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.05%) IoT
5 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.02%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.01%) CSOC
8 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Windows
2 13 (13.13%) Linux
3 7 (7.07%) Kali Linux
4 3 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (1.01%) AIX
5 1 (1.01%) Solaris
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (40.40%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (31.31%) Cloud Security
2 31 (31.31%) Information Security
3 22 (22.22%) DevOps
3 22 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 21 (21.21%) Threat Modelling
5 19 (19.19%) Security Operations
6 18 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
6 18 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
7 17 (17.17%) SIEM
8 16 (16.16%) Ethical Hacking
9 15 (15.15%) Computer Science
9 15 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
9 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (15.15%) Red Team
10 14 (14.14%) OWASP
10 14 (14.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 13 (13.13%) Application Security
12 12 (12.12%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.15%) Python
2 8 (8.08%) C#
3 7 (7.07%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (6.06%) Go
4 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.03%) Perl
6 2 (2.02%) C
6 2 (2.02%) C++
6 2 (2.02%) Java
6 2 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.01%) Bash
7 1 (1.01%) Ruby
7 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 15 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.13%) OSCP
4 12 (12.12%) CREST Certified
5 11 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 10 (10.10%) SC Cleared
7 9 (9.09%) CISSP
8 8 (8.08%) CISM
8 8 (8.08%) GIAC
9 7 (7.07%) CEH
9 7 (7.07%) CHECK Team Leader
10 4 (4.04%) GPEN
11 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
12 2 (2.02%) CCNA
12 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (2.02%) CSSLP
12 2 (2.02%) ECSA
13 1 (1.01%) CCNP
13 1 (1.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (15.15%) NIST
3 11 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (8.08%) PCI DSS
5 7 (7.07%) QA
6 5 (5.05%) GDPR
6 5 (5.05%) PMO
7 4 (4.04%) COBIT
7 4 (4.04%) NCSC
8 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.02%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.02%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (2.02%) SLA
9 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 15 (15.15%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Nessus
3 1 (1.01%) CASB
3 1 (1.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.01%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.01%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Google
3 6 (6.06%) Qualys
4 5 (5.05%) SAP
5 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 2 (2.02%) F5
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle
6 2 (2.02%) Remedy
6 2 (2.02%) Splunk
7 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.01%) BigPanda
7 1 (1.01%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.01%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.01%) IBM
7 1 (1.01%) Imperva
7 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.01%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Veracode
7 1 (1.01%) VMware