Security Testing Contracts in Manchester

Security Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 101 139
Rank change year-on-year +22 +38 -43
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 12 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.83% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.66% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £444 £385 £543
25th Percentile £463 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £655 -
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +64.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,665 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.43% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,215 1,796
10th Percentile £325 £315 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 60
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +107.22% +10.91%
75th Percentile £60.63 £48.75 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £23.38
% change year-on-year -33.89% +53.99% +26.91%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Manchester

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Manchester

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Manchester

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (8.33%) IaaS
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
1 1 (8.33%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Pa11y
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
1 6 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technologist
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (58.33%) Load Testing
1 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Experience
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Active Listening
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Rapid7
1 3 (25.00%) Sophos
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) VMware