Staffordshire Penetration Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Penetration Tester role in IT contracts within the Staffordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location England London South East Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Thames Valley UK West Midlands	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.922 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	217	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.309 %	0.178 %
Daily rates quoted	72	44
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£309
Average daily rate	£328	£328
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£18.89
Average hourly rate	£17.26	£20.63
% change on same period last year	-16.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.64	£22.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Penetration Tester West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Tester across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Tester within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent	-	2	-	-

Penetration Tester West Midlands

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Penetration Tester in their job title 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 with Penetration Tester in their job title.

1 9 (100.00 %) SQL 2 7 (77.78 %) Information Security 2 7 (77.78 %) Paros 2 7 (77.78 %) Auditing 2 7 (77.78 %) HTTP 2 7 (77.78 %) Fiddler 3 6 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 3 6 (66.67 %) VB 4 2 (22.22 %) Penetration Testing 4 2 (22.22 %) Ethical Hacking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Penetration Tester in their job title 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 with Penetration Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 7 (77.78 %) HTTP	Development Applications 1 7 (77.78 %) Paros 1 7 (77.78 %) Fiddler
General 1 7 (77.78 %) Auditing	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (77.78 %) Information Security 2 2 (22.22 %) Ethical Hacking 2 2 (22.22 %) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages 1 9 (100.00 %) SQL 2 6 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 2 6 (66.67 %) VB