Security Testing Contracts in the South West

Security Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 165 169
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -30
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 6 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.055% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.062% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £508 £549 £373
25th Percentile £556 £558 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £594 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +19.95% +12.50%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £638
90th Percentile - £628 £765
England median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the South West

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the South West

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the South West

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +22 5 £580 -1.28%
Wiltshire +4 1 - - 2
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) NUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Manual Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP