Security Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 355 417
Rank change year-on-year +38 +62 -30
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 71 92 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 67
10th Percentile £463 £428 £380
25th Percentile £502 £513 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.59% +9.50%
75th Percentile £644 £725 £600
90th Percentile £708 £775 £680
UK median daily rate £613 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +23 32 £550 -8.33% 5
North of England +23 13 £525 -8.70% 17
North West +27 12 £525 -8.70% 9
Scotland +37 9 £600 - 2
South West +28 7 £585 -1.47% 5
Midlands +10 5 £538 -18.87% 7
West Midlands -1 4 £650 -10.34% 6
East of England +6 3 £700 - 3
Wales - 2 £666 - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 8
East Midlands +19 1 £355 -40.83% 1
Security Testing
UK

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.49%) Apache
1 11 (15.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.62%) Azure
2 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.68%) Azure Key Vault
3 9 (12.68%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (8.45%) AWS
4 6 (8.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (8.45%) Serverless
5 5 (7.04%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Functions
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.82%) GCP
8 2 (2.82%) PaaS
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) BGP
1 11 (15.49%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (15.49%) MPLS
1 11 (15.49%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (15.49%) VPN
2 7 (9.86%) Firewall
3 3 (4.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.23%) Big Data
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) JIRA
2 12 (16.90%) GitLab
3 11 (15.49%) Git
3 11 (15.49%) Robot Framework
3 11 (15.49%) TestRail
4 10 (14.08%) Visual Studio
5 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.63%) NUnit
5 4 (5.63%) Postman
5 4 (5.63%) Selenium
6 3 (4.23%) Burp Suite
6 3 (4.23%) JMeter
6 3 (4.23%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.41%) AppScan
8 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.41%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.41%) Subversion
8 1 (1.41%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Automotive
7 1 (1.41%) Electronics
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Test Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
3 12 (16.90%) Lead
4 10 (14.08%) Network Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Designer
6 5 (7.04%) Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Lead Designer
7 4 (5.63%) Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Consultant
7 4 (5.63%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Security Consultant
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Coordinator
8 3 (4.23%) Security Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Test Coordinator
8 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
8 3 (4.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) REST
1 14 (19.72%) SOAP
2 11 (15.49%) NETCONF
2 11 (15.49%) RESTCONF
2 11 (15.49%) YANG
3 9 (12.68%) AngularJS
4 7 (9.86%) .NET
5 6 (8.45%) CSS
6 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
6 5 (7.04%) HTML
6 5 (7.04%) Node.js
7 4 (5.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.63%) Playwright
7 4 (5.63%) XML
8 3 (4.23%) JSON
8 3 (4.23%) OAuth
8 3 (4.23%) OpenID
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) PKI
2 6 (8.45%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) Test Automation
2 33 (46.48%) DevOps
3 30 (42.25%) Agile
4 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
5 25 (35.21%) Performance Testing
6 20 (28.17%) Integration Testing
7 16 (22.54%) Unit Testing
8 15 (21.13%) Scrum
9 13 (18.31%) Containerisation
9 13 (18.31%) DevSecOps
9 13 (18.31%) Workflow
10 12 (16.90%) Application Security
10 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (16.90%) Load Testing
10 12 (16.90%) Non-Functional Testing
11 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (15.49%) Regression Testing
11 11 (15.49%) Test Strategy
12 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (14.08%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) SQL
2 18 (25.35%) Python
3 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.45%) PHP
5 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) C
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.23%) MCSE
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.82%) SANS
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.41%) ISEB
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.41%) OSCP
4 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.04%) NIST
2 5 (7.04%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Ansible
1 5 (7.04%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) Grafana
2 3 (4.23%) SCCM
3 2 (2.82%) Graylog
3 2 (2.82%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.82%) Nagios
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) Nessus
4 1 (1.41%) Nmap
4 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.41%) Puppet
4 1 (1.41%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Rapid7
2 5 (7.04%) Sophos
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.82%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) Pega
5 1 (1.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.41%) Veracode
5 1 (1.41%) VMware