Security Testing Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Security Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 348 401 421
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +20
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 39 17 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.177% 0.062% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.238% 0.087% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 4
Average daily rate £400 £385 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -21.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £308 £423
10% offered a daily rate of more than £484 £550 £612
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16410 19631 21812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.61% 71.81% 71.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11259 12893 14383
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 338 344
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Security Testing Daily Rate Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Security Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Security Testing across the London region.

London Security Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Security Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +21 17 £375 -28.57%
Hounslow -3 1 - -
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 40 (55.56%) Internet
2 37 (51.39%) Penetration Testing
3 33 (45.83%) Java
4 32 (44.44%) HP
5 30 (41.67%) OWASP
6 29 (40.28%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (38.89%) TeamCity
7 28 (38.89%) Visual Studio
7 28 (38.89%) CruiseControl
8 22 (30.56%) Data Protection
8 22 (30.56%) Fixed Income
8 22 (30.56%) C#
8 22 (30.56%) .NET
8 22 (30.56%) CA
8 22 (30.56%) Kerberos
8 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
8 22 (30.56%) SAML
8 22 (30.56%) CA SiteMinder
9 14 (19.44%) Ajax
10 12 (16.67%) SQL
11 11 (15.28%) JavaScript
11 11 (15.28%) MS Excel
11 11 (15.28%) TDD
11 11 (15.28%) JSON
11 11 (15.28%) Test Scripting
11 11 (15.28%) Open Source
11 11 (15.28%) BDD
11 11 (15.28%) MSBuild
12 10 (13.89%) Performance Testing
12 10 (13.89%) CSS

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 22 (30.56%) .NET
1 22 (30.56%) SAML
2 14 (19.44%) Ajax
3 11 (15.28%) JSON
4 10 (13.89%) CSS
5 9 (12.50%) HTML5
6 8 (11.11%) jQuery
6 8 (11.11%) Web Services
7 7 (9.722%) XML
7 7 (9.722%) SOAP
8 6 (8.333%) CSS3
9 5 (6.944%) Spring
9 5 (6.944%) soapUI
10 3 (4.167%) J2EE
11 2 (2.778%) REST
11 2 (2.778%) HTML
12 1 (1.389%) Flash
12 1 (1.389%) ASP
12 1 (1.389%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.389%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (9.722%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (9.722%) Amazon S3
2 7 (9.722%) Route 53
3 1 (1.389%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (1.389%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (15.28%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (9.722%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 40 (55.56%) Internet
2 22 (30.56%) Kerberos
3 8 (11.11%) HTTP
4 7 (9.722%) SSL
5 5 (6.944%) HTTPS
6 3 (4.167%) Firewall
6 3 (4.167%) Network Security
7 1 (1.389%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Redis
1 8 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.722%) MySQL
2 7 (9.722%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.778%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.389%) SimpleDB
4 1 (1.389%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 28 (38.89%) TeamCity
1 28 (38.89%) Visual Studio
1 28 (38.89%) CruiseControl
2 11 (15.28%) MSBuild
3 9 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.333%) Hudson
4 6 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (8.333%) Selenium
4 6 (8.333%) JMeter
5 5 (6.944%) OpenSTA
6 3 (4.167%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.167%) JIRA
7 2 (2.778%) AppScan
7 2 (2.778%) WinRunner
7 2 (2.778%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (1.389%) Maven
8 1 (1.389%) Redmine
8 1 (1.389%) GDB
8 1 (1.389%) Cucumber
General
1 9 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (5.556%) Banking
3 2 (2.778%) Games
3 2 (2.778%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.389%) Billing
4 1 (1.389%) Legal
4 1 (1.389%) Advertising
4 1 (1.389%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.389%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Analyst
2 24 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 23 (31.94%) Application Security Analyst
4 20 (27.78%) Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Tester
6 11 (15.28%) Applications Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Analyst Developer
7 7 (9.722%) Mobile Developer
7 7 (9.722%) Front-End Developer
8 6 (8.333%) Front-End Web Developer
8 6 (8.333%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (8.333%) Web Developer
8 6 (8.333%) Security Specialist
8 6 (8.333%) Test Analyst
9 5 (6.944%) Architect
10 4 (5.556%) Non-Functional Tester
10 4 (5.556%) Security Architect
11 3 (4.167%) Test Manager
11 3 (4.167%) Penetration Tester
12 2 (2.778%) Security Tester
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) Fixed Income
2 11 (15.28%) Open Source
3 3 (4.167%) Data Conversion
4 2 (2.778%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.778%) Ergonomics
4 2 (2.778%) iDTV
4 2 (2.778%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.389%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.389%) STB
5 1 (1.389%) Cryptography
5 1 (1.389%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.389%) RMADS
5 1 (1.389%) SaaS
5 1 (1.389%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.722%) Linux
2 6 (8.333%) UNIX
3 2 (2.778%) Windows
4 1 (1.389%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.389%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Penetration Testing
2 30 (41.67%) OWASP
3 29 (40.28%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (30.56%) Data Protection
5 11 (15.28%) TDD
5 11 (15.28%) Test Scripting
5 11 (15.28%) BDD
6 10 (13.89%) Performance Testing
7 9 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (11.11%) Scrum
9 7 (9.722%) Stress Testing
10 6 (8.333%) Automated Testing
11 5 (6.944%) Migration
11 5 (6.944%) Test Automation
12 4 (5.556%) Security Architecture
12 4 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (5.556%) OO
13 3 (4.167%) Ethical Hacking
13 3 (4.167%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 3 (4.167%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.83%) Java
2 22 (30.56%) C#
3 12 (16.67%) SQL
4 11 (15.28%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.778%) Ruby
5 2 (2.778%) VBScript
5 2 (2.778%) VB
5 2 (2.778%) C++
6 1 (1.389%) Python
6 1 (1.389%) Perl
6 1 (1.389%) C
6 1 (1.389%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.389%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (6.944%) CISSP
2 3 (4.167%) ISEB
3 2 (2.778%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.778%) CEH
4 1 (1.389%) SSCP
4 1 (1.389%) GIAC
4 1 (1.389%) CISM
4 1 (1.389%) Degree
4 1 (1.389%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.389%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.944%) QA
2 2 (2.778%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.389%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.389%) Basel II
3 1 (1.389%) COBIT
3 1 (1.389%) COSO
3 1 (1.389%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) CA SiteMinder
2 3 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.389%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) HP
2 22 (30.56%) CA
2 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.50%) Oracle
4 7 (9.722%) Percona
5 2 (2.778%) IBM
6 1 (1.389%) Adobe
6 1 (1.389%) hybris
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