Penetration Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 151 185
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 -43
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 12 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.64% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.72% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 19
10th Percentile £400 £441 £518
25th Percentile £447 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +2.13% +8.29%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £625
90th Percentile - £744 £725
England median daily rate £600 £575 £586
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.92% +14.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,247 3,061 4,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.39% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 2,132 3,341
10th Percentile £235 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 120 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Midlands +23 8 £650 +8.33% 1
East Midlands - 4 £400 - 5
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) CloudFront
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Information Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Security Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) OAuth
1 5 (41.67%) OAuth2
1 5 (41.67%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (41.67%) Application Security
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Data Security
2 5 (41.67%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (41.67%) DevSecOps
2 5 (41.67%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
2 5 (41.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (8.33%) Benchmarking
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk