Security Testing Contracts in the South East

Security Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 183 246
Rank change year-on-year +21 +63 -56
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 29 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.49% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.55% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 9
10th Percentile £500 £353 £486
25th Percentile £505 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £644 £768 £695
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,626 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Thames Valley +21 26 £550 -8.33% 1
Berkshire -1 23 £513 -15.46% 1
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £550 -6.38%
West Sussex +6 3 £550 +104.65%
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (37.93%) Apache
1 11 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (17.24%) Azure API Management
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Functions
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (17.24%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) Figma
5 1 (3.45%) npm
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) BGP
1 11 (37.93%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (37.93%) MPLS
1 11 (37.93%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (37.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) NoSQL
2 11 (37.93%) MongoDB
2 11 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) JIRA
2 11 (37.93%) GitLab
2 11 (37.93%) Robot Framework
2 11 (37.93%) TestRail
3 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
4 3 (10.34%) Git
5 1 (3.45%) rollup.js
5 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Network Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Integration Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Security Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Development Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Designer
6 1 (3.45%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) REST
1 14 (48.28%) SOAP
2 11 (37.93%) NETCONF
2 11 (37.93%) RESTCONF
2 11 (37.93%) YANG
3 5 (17.24%) ARM Templates
4 4 (13.79%) XML
5 3 (10.34%) .NET
5 3 (10.34%) CSS
5 3 (10.34%) JSON
5 3 (10.34%) OAuth
5 3 (10.34%) OpenID
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
6 2 (6.90%) Node.js
7 1 (3.45%) Pandas
7 1 (3.45%) PySpark
7 1 (3.45%) React
7 1 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) IoT
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
3 17 (58.62%) Integration Testing
4 16 (55.17%) Agile
5 14 (48.28%) DevOps
5 14 (48.28%) Performance Testing
6 13 (44.83%) Unit Testing
6 13 (44.83%) Workflow
7 11 (37.93%) Containerisation
7 11 (37.93%) Regression Testing
7 11 (37.93%) Scrum
8 8 (27.59%) Application Security
9 6 (20.69%) Break/Fix
9 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (17.24%) B2C
10 5 (17.24%) OWASP
10 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
11 4 (13.79%) API Design
11 4 (13.79%) OO
11 4 (13.79%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks