Security Testing Contracts in the North of England

Security Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 199 222
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 -41
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 13 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 22
10th Percentile £444 £460 £427
25th Percentile £463 £500 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £648 £706
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +27 12 £525 -8.70% 10
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 8
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
1 1 (7.69%) IaaS
1 1 (7.69%) PaaS
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
1 1 (7.69%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
1 1 (7.69%) Pa11y
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
1 1 (7.69%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
1 6 (46.15%) Test Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
3 1 (7.69%) SOC Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technologist
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (53.85%) Load Testing
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Active Listening
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
1 1 (7.69%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Rapid7
1 3 (23.08%) Sophos
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) VMware