Security Testing Contracts in London

Security Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 399 457
Rank change year-on-year +109 +58 -61
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 102 99 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.40% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 60 102
10th Percentile £460 £432 £396
25th Percentile £575 £500 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £606 £569
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +6.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £780 £754 £709
90th Percentile £795 £827 £850
England median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security 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 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
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% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security 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 Security Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +33 9 £645 -7.86% 1
East London - 9 £650 - 1
Security Testing
England

Security 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 8 (7.84%) nginx
2 4 (3.92%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.43%) AWS
2 22 (21.57%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) SaaS
4 16 (15.69%) Serverless
5 14 (13.73%) IaaS
6 12 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (11.76%) PaaS
7 8 (7.84%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.90%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.92%) Apigee
10 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.94%) GCP
12 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.98%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.98%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) Firewall
2 9 (8.82%) VPN
3 8 (7.84%) BGP
3 8 (7.84%) LAN
3 8 (7.84%) WAN
3 8 (7.84%) WLAN
4 7 (6.86%) Wireless
5 6 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.88%) OSPF
6 5 (4.90%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (4.90%) IPsec
7 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.96%) DNS
8 2 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.96%) MPLS
9 1 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Git
1 11 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.84%) GitLab
2 8 (7.84%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) TestRail
4 4 (3.92%) Selenium
4 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.94%) Burp Suite
5 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.94%) FitNesse
5 3 (2.94%) JMeter
5 3 (2.94%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.94%) Postman
5 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.96%) NUnit
6 2 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.98%) AppScan
7 1 (0.98%) Subversion
General
1 30 (29.41%) Finance
2 24 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.82%) Banking
7 7 (6.86%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Back Office
8 3 (2.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.96%) Electronics
9 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Architect
2 16 (15.69%) Security Architect
3 15 (14.71%) Senior
4 13 (12.75%) Developer
5 12 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 12 (11.76%) Security Manager
6 10 (9.80%) Security Project Manager
7 9 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Cloud Security Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Full Stack Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Security Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Tester
9 6 (5.88%) Consultant
9 6 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 6 (5.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 5 (4.90%) Network Specialist
10 5 (4.90%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) CSS
1 9 (8.82%) HTML
1 9 (8.82%) Laravel
1 9 (8.82%) REST
1 9 (8.82%) Sass
1 9 (8.82%) WebSockets
2 6 (5.88%) SOAP
3 4 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Camel
3 4 (3.92%) Node.js
3 4 (3.92%) OpenAPI
3 4 (3.92%) Playwright
3 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.92%) RAML
3 4 (3.92%) Spring
3 4 (3.92%) Swagger
4 2 (1.96%) .NET
4 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.96%) FpML
4 2 (1.96%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Mobile App
1 13 (12.75%) Security Posture
2 12 (11.76%) IoT
2 12 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.90%) PKI
3 5 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.94%) PMI
5 2 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.71%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Unix
3 7 (6.86%) Windows
4 5 (4.90%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (4.90%) Solaris
4 5 (4.90%) VMS
4 5 (4.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.98%) CentOS
6 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.31%) Test Automation
2 34 (33.33%) Application Security
3 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.43%) Static Application Security Testing
4 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (25.49%) Agile
6 23 (22.55%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (20.59%) DevSecOps
9 19 (18.63%) SDLC
10 18 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (16.67%) Information Security
12 16 (15.69%) DevOps
13 15 (14.71%) Migration
13 15 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
14 14 (13.73%) Cloud Security
14 14 (13.73%) Project Delivery
14 14 (13.73%) TDD
15 13 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (12.75%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 12 (11.76%) Python
2 9 (8.82%) PHP
2 9 (8.82%) SQL
3 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.94%) Java
5 2 (1.96%) Bash
5 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.98%) C
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Perl
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) Degree
2 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (11.76%) CISSP
6 11 (10.78%) CISM
7 7 (6.86%) CISA
8 4 (3.92%) ISTQB
9 3 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.96%) CEH
10 2 (1.96%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.96%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.98%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.98%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (0.98%) GIAC
11 1 (0.98%) ISEB
11 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.71%) Accessibility
1 15 (14.71%) NIST
2 9 (8.82%) QA
3 5 (4.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.96%) GDPR
5 2 (1.96%) GRC
5 2 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.90%) KVM
2 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) Terraform
2 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.80%) Ansible
4 6 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.96%) Puppet
5 2 (1.96%) SCCM
6 1 (0.98%) Grafana
6 1 (0.98%) Graylog
6 1 (0.98%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.98%) Nagios
6 1 (0.98%) Nessus
6 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Oracle
2 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.84%) VMware
4 7 (6.86%) Palo Alto
4 7 (6.86%) SAP
5 6 (5.88%) Cisco
5 6 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 6 (5.88%) Juniper
6 5 (4.90%) Extreme Networks
7 4 (3.92%) Google
7 4 (3.92%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.92%) WSO2
8 3 (2.94%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.94%) Qualys
8 3 (2.94%) Veracode
9 2 (1.96%) CA
10 1 (0.98%) F5
10 1 (0.98%) Imperva
10 1 (0.98%) Splunk