Penetration Testing Contracts in the North West

Penetration Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 142 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -34
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 18 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 0.34% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.38% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 18
10th Percentile - £475 £289
25th Percentile £425 £500 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -5.62% +27.14%
75th Percentile £669 £616 £675
90th Percentile £684 £638 -
England median daily rate £590 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.13% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the North West

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the North West

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the North West

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the North West

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Cumbria - 10 £669 -
Manchester +18 8 £450 -14.29% 5
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
1 10 (55.56%) Security Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Ethical Hacker
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Kali Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Information Security
1 11 (61.11%) Risk Management
1 11 (61.11%) Security Architecture
2 10 (55.56%) Business Strategy
2 10 (55.56%) Cryptography
2 10 (55.56%) IT Strategy
2 10 (55.56%) Project Delivery
2 10 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 10 (55.56%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Purple Team
5 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (22.22%) CISM
4 4 (22.22%) CISSP
5 3 (16.67%) OSCP
6 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (61.11%) NIST
3 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike