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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 409 466
Rank change year-on-year +104 +57 -75
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 94 85 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 55 93
10th Percentile £425 £440 £405
25th Percentile £550 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £756 £771 £725
90th Percentile £780 £836 £850
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.17%

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 15,434 23,355 35,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 90.83% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,092 16,895 26,270
10th Percentile £340 £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 £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 266 410
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £16.95
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £39.63 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -29.54% +12.29% +10.27%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.98 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.46% +49.68% +11.11%

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 27 May 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 27 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 8 £623 -7.78% 4
East London - 5 £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 9 (9.57%) nginx
2 4 (4.26%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.60%) AWS
2 23 (24.47%) Azure
3 19 (20.21%) SaaS
4 16 (17.02%) Serverless
5 12 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (12.77%) IaaS
5 12 (12.77%) PaaS
6 9 (9.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.32%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.26%) Apigee
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.19%) GCP
10 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.06%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) VPN
3 6 (6.38%) BGP
4 5 (5.32%) LAN
5 4 (4.26%) IPsec
5 4 (4.26%) OSPF
5 4 (4.26%) WAN
5 4 (4.26%) Wireless
5 4 (4.26%) WLAN
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (3.19%) DNS
7 2 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.13%) MPLS
8 1 (1.06%) HTTP
8 1 (1.06%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.06%) VoIP
8 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.38%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.06%) Big Data
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) HDInsight
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git
1 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.51%) GitLab
2 8 (8.51%) JIRA
3 5 (5.32%) Burp Suite
3 5 (5.32%) TestRail
4 4 (4.26%) Selenium
4 4 (4.26%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.19%) FitNesse
5 3 (3.19%) JMeter
5 3 (3.19%) LoadRunner
5 3 (3.19%) Postman
5 3 (3.19%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.13%) NUnit
6 2 (2.13%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.06%) AppScan
7 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (30.85%) Finance
2 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.45%) Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.19%) Back Office
8 3 (3.19%) Front Office
8 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.13%) Electronics
9 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.06%) Law
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) Architect
2 16 (17.02%) Security Architect
2 16 (17.02%) Senior
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 11 (11.70%) Security Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (9.57%) Full Stack Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Cloud Security Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Security Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Tester
8 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
8 7 (7.45%) Security Manager
8 7 (7.45%) Security Project Manager
9 6 (6.38%) Consultant
9 6 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 6 (6.38%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 5 (5.32%) Security Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) CSS
1 10 (10.64%) HTML
1 10 (10.64%) Laravel
1 10 (10.64%) Sass
1 10 (10.64%) WebSockets
2 9 (9.57%) REST
3 6 (6.38%) SOAP
4 4 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (4.26%) Apache Camel
4 4 (4.26%) Node.js
4 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
4 4 (4.26%) Playwright
4 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.26%) RAML
4 4 (4.26%) Spring
4 4 (4.26%) Swagger
5 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.13%) NETCONF
5 2 (2.13%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Mobile App
2 12 (12.77%) IoT
2 12 (12.77%) Security Posture
3 10 (10.64%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.19%) PKI
5 3 (3.19%) PMI
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Unix
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (5.32%) Solaris
3 5 (5.32%) VMS
4 4 (4.26%) Windows
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Application Security
2 35 (37.23%) Test Automation
3 29 (30.85%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.85%) Static Application Security Testing
4 26 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.53%) Agile
6 23 (24.47%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 20 (21.28%) DevSecOps
7 20 (21.28%) SDLC
8 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (18.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 16 (17.02%) DevOps
10 16 (17.02%) Information Security
11 15 (15.96%) TDD
12 13 (13.83%) Cloud Security
12 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
12 13 (13.83%) Microservices
12 13 (13.83%) Security Architecture
13 12 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (12.77%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.64%) PHP
3 9 (9.57%) Python
3 9 (9.57%) SQL
4 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) C
7 1 (1.06%) C#
7 1 (1.06%) C++
7 1 (1.06%) Perl
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) Ruby
7 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Degree
2 13 (13.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
4 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.57%) CISM
5 9 (9.57%) CISSP
6 4 (4.26%) CISA
6 4 (4.26%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.13%) CRISC
8 2 (2.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.06%) CSSLP
9 1 (1.06%) GIAC
9 1 (1.06%) ISEB
9 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.06%) OSCP
9 1 (1.06%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.02%) Accessibility
2 15 (15.96%) NIST
3 9 (9.57%) QA
4 7 (7.45%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (4.26%) GDPR
6 4 (4.26%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.19%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.06%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
2 5 (5.32%) KVM
2 5 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (23.40%) Terraform
2 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.57%) Ansible
4 3 (3.19%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.19%) SCCM
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Graylog
5 1 (1.06%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.06%) Nagios
5 1 (1.06%) Nessus
5 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.06%) Puppet
5 1 (1.06%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.89%) Oracle
3 9 (9.57%) VMware
4 6 (6.38%) Qualys
4 6 (6.38%) SAP
5 5 (5.32%) Checkmarx
5 5 (5.32%) Veracode
6 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.26%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Juniper
6 4 (4.26%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.26%) WSO2
7 3 (3.19%) CA
7 3 (3.19%) Cisco
7 3 (3.19%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.06%) Databricks
8 1 (1.06%) F5
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk