Security Testing Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Security Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Testing over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 210 244 245
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 13 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.166% 0.030% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.245% 0.046% 0.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
Average daily rate £375 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +64.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5315 6567 6781
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.02% 64.65% 64.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2757 3151 3072
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 329 363
Average hourly rate £26.98 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.78% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Security Testing across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Testing across the South East region.

South East Security Testing Daily Rate Trend

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Testing across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Security Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Security Testing across the South East region.

South East Security Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Security Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +22 7 £425 +254.16%
Hampshire - 5 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £550 -
East Sussex - 1 £350 -
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Security Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Security Testing.

1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) Internet
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security
3 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Change Control
4 5 (27.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (27.78%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
4 5 (27.78%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) CESG
4 5 (27.78%) Firewall
5 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) Tivoli
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) CA
5 4 (22.22%) Windows
5 4 (22.22%) Network Security
5 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) RMADS
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Azure
6 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Linux

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Security Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Security Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) JSP
3 2 (11.11%) soapUI
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (5.556%) J2SE
4 1 (5.556%) WCF
4 1 (5.556%) HTML5
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE
4 1 (5.556%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.556%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Azure
2 1 (5.556%) IIS
2 1 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Internet
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (22.22%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
5 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) FitNesse
2 2 (11.11%) Fiddler
2 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
2 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.556%) GitHub
3 1 (5.556%) StyleCop
3 1 (5.556%) MSTest
3 1 (5.556%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.556%) Git (software)
3 1 (5.556%) Firebug
3 1 (5.556%) WATIR
3 1 (5.556%) JMeter
3 1 (5.556%) NUnit
3 1 (5.556%) Subversion
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Security Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Consultant
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Operations Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) CESG
2 3 (16.67%) RMADS
3 2 (11.11%) Open Source
3 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.556%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (11.11%) UNIX
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.556%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Information Security
1 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 6 (33.33%) Change Control
2 5 (27.78%) Ethical Hacking
3 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) Web Testing
5 2 (11.11%) SIEM
5 2 (11.11%) Software Deployment
6 1 (5.556%) Analytics
6 1 (5.556%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.556%) Perl
4 1 (5.556%) C++
4 1 (5.556%) Python
4 1 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) ISEB
3 1 (5.556%) GIAC
3 1 (5.556%) GCIA
3 1 (5.556%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.556%) COBIT
3 1 (5.556%) QA
3 1 (5.556%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.556%) COSO
3 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Tivoli
2 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) CA
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (5.556%) Qualys
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