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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 346 496
Rank change year-on-year +50 +150 -95
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 99 144 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.55% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.60% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 94 77
10th Percentile £430 £450 £350
25th Percentile £525 £502 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £606 £580
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.53% -3.33%
75th Percentile £713 £743 £653
90th Percentile £775 £837 £751
England median daily rate £588 £588 £588
% change year-on-year - - +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 15,657 23,997 35,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,215 17,295 26,043
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
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 £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 273 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £81.80 £68.88
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

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 12 May 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

Penetration Testing
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 12 May 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
Central London +34 11 £700 +24.44% 6
East London +6 9 £585 +8.33% 1
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 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.20%) Azure
2 12 (12.12%) AWS
3 11 (11.11%) GCP
4 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.04%) SaaS
6 3 (3.03%) GitHub
6 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.01%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.18%) Firewall
2 12 (12.12%) Network Security
3 11 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 11 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (4.04%) Wireless
5 2 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.02%) Internet
6 1 (1.01%) DHCP
6 1 (1.01%) DNS
6 1 (1.01%) FTP
6 1 (1.01%) HTTP
6 1 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.01%) tcpdump
6 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 2 (2.02%) JIRA
7 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (37.37%) Finance
2 23 (23.23%) Banking
3 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.05%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.22%) Consultant
2 18 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 13 (13.13%) Architect
3 13 (13.13%) Security Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Security Architect
5 9 (9.09%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Consultant
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Security Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Penetration Tester
8 5 (5.05%) Tester
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%) IT Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) IT Security Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
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%) PKI
2 10 (10.10%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.07%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) IoT
4 4 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.01%) CSOC
7 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.16%) Windows
2 11 (11.11%) 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 39 (39.39%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (31.31%) Cloud Security
3 30 (30.30%) Information Security
4 23 (23.23%) DevOps
5 22 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 22 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 19 (19.19%) Security Operations
7 18 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
7 18 (18.18%) SIEM
8 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
9 16 (16.16%) Ethical Hacking
9 16 (16.16%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (15.15%) Computer Science
10 15 (15.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 14 (14.14%) Application Security
11 14 (14.14%) Red Team
11 14 (14.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 13 (13.13%) Security Auditing
13 12 (12.12%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.14%) Python
2 7 (7.07%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.06%) C#
4 4 (4.04%) Go
4 4 (4.04%) Perl
5 2 (2.02%) C
5 2 (2.02%) C++
5 2 (2.02%) Java
5 2 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.01%) Bash
6 1 (1.01%) Ruby
6 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 15 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (11.11%) OSCP
3 11 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 10 (10.10%) CREST Certified
4 10 (10.10%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.09%) CISSP
6 8 (8.08%) CISM
7 7 (7.07%) CEH
8 6 (6.06%) GIAC
9 5 (5.05%) CHECK Team Leader
10 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.02%) CCNA
11 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.02%) CSSLP
11 2 (2.02%) ECSA
11 2 (2.02%) GPEN
12 1 (1.01%) CRISC
12 1 (1.01%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (13.13%) NIST
3 11 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (8.08%) PCI DSS
5 7 (7.07%) QA
6 6 (6.06%) GDPR
7 4 (4.04%) COBIT
7 4 (4.04%) NCSC
8 3 (3.03%) PMO
9 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.02%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.02%) ISO 22301
9 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (2.02%) SLA
10 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 16 (16.16%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Nessus
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
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 17 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Google
3 6 (6.06%) Qualys
4 5 (5.05%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) Oracle
7 2 (2.02%) F5
7 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.02%) Splunk
8 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.01%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.01%) IBM
8 1 (1.01%) Imperva
8 1 (1.01%) Intel
8 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.01%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.01%) Remedy
8 1 (1.01%) Veracode
8 1 (1.01%) VMware