Penetration Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 133 161
Rank change year-on-year +35 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 42 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.55% 0.44% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.48% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £423 £499 £316
25th Percentile £458 £545 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £648 £554
Median % change year-on-year -18.15% +16.93% -5.06%
75th Percentile £545 £753 £750
90th Percentile - £781 £1,050
South East median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% +29.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire +18 41 £530 -18.15% 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 -
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 40 (95.24%) PaaS
1 40 (95.24%) SaaS
2 38 (90.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (90.48%) 5G
1 38 (90.48%) Broadband
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
General
1 38 (90.48%) Law
1 38 (90.48%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (90.48%) Penetration Tester
1 38 (90.48%) Security Penetration Tester
1 38 (90.48%) Security Specialist
1 38 (90.48%) Security Tester
1 38 (90.48%) Tester
1 38 (90.48%) Testing Specialist
2 2 (4.76%) Analyst
2 2 (4.76%) Product Analyst
3 1 (2.38%) Architect
3 1 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (2.38%) IT Analyst
3 1 (2.38%) Security Architect
3 1 (2.38%) Service Manager
3 1 (2.38%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (2.38%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (90.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (90.48%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (95.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (90.48%) Application Security
3 38 (90.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 38 (90.48%) OWASP
3 38 (90.48%) Security Testing
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Agile
5 2 (4.76%) Business Analysis
5 2 (4.76%) Business Case
5 2 (4.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (4.76%) Customer Experience
5 2 (4.76%) Data Security
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (4.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (4.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (4.76%) Scrum
5 2 (4.76%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (4.76%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (4.76%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 38 (90.48%) CREST Certified
1 38 (90.48%) GIAC
1 38 (90.48%) GPEN
1 38 (90.48%) OSCP
1 38 (90.48%) SANS
1 38 (90.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (90.48%) GDPR
1 38 (90.48%) NCSC
1 38 (90.48%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 38 (90.48%) Virgin Media