Security Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Security Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 141 178
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 -34
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 5 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.75% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.84% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 13
10th Percentile £371 £421 £345
25th Percentile £398 £509 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £663 £381
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +73.88% -4.75%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £488
90th Percentile £745 - £495
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,964 4,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.02% 88.40% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,073 3,221
10th Percentile £237 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £365 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £687 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 113 142
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.84 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.75 £34.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the Midlands

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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 Security Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +2 4 £650 -10.34% 3
East Midlands +24 1 £355 -40.83% 2
Security Testing
England

Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
2 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Rapid7
1 2 (40.00%) Sophos
2 1 (20.00%) Pega