Burp Suite Contracts

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Burp Suite skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Burp Suite over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 673 806
Rank change year-on-year +118 +133 -134
Contract jobs citing Burp Suite 27 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.052% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 13
10th Percentile £500 £480 £531
25th Percentile £541 £500 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -2.54% +28.26%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £700
90th Percentile £714 £786 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% +22.73%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Burp Suite is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,133 8,623 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 14.90% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,068 11,111
10th Percentile £353 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 240 218
10th Percentile £33.60 £44.64 £38.36
25th Percentile £46.63 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.61
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +16.90% +16.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.58 £65.48
90th Percentile £79.75 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Burp Suite as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Burp Suite in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Burp Suite.

Daily rate trend for Burp Suite in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Burp Suite in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Burp Suite.

Hourly rate trend for Burp Suite in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Burp Suite within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +100 25 £583 -10.38% 11
London +97 17 £590 -23.13% 3
UK excluding London +57 10 £575 -4.17% 9
North of England +40 8 £573 +14.50% 1
Work from Home +118 5 £594 +13.14% 11
North West +26 4 £575 +15.00%
Yorkshire +22 4 £569 - 1
Scotland +40 3 - -
South West - 3 - - 1
Wales +16 2 £666 +6.60%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (7.41%) nginx
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) GitHub
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (14.81%) Slack
5 3 (11.11%) Akamai
5 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.93%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.81%) Metadata
4 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) SonarQube
2 6 (22.22%) AppScan
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (14.81%) JIRA
4 3 (11.11%) Metasploit
5 2 (7.41%) Git
5 2 (7.41%) Subversion
6 1 (3.70%) Postman
6 1 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Ethical Hacker
1 7 (25.93%) Security Engineer
1 7 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.11%) gRPC
2 3 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Public Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.70%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) Kali Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 3 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (44.44%) OWASP
2 12 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
3 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) Project Management
4 9 (33.33%) Application Security
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Cloud Security
5 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.93%) Ethical Hacking
5 7 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Change Control
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (22.22%) Security Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (18.52%) Purple Team
7 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
4 4 (14.81%) Go
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) OSCP
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) SANS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ISEB
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) PCI DSS
2 6 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Nessus
3 7 (25.93%) Ansible
3 7 (25.93%) Grafana
3 7 (25.93%) Graylog
3 7 (25.93%) HP Fortify
3 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 6 (22.22%) Progress Chef
4 6 (22.22%) Puppet
4 6 (22.22%) WebInspect
5 3 (11.11%) Nagios
6 1 (3.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Splunk
2 8 (29.63%) Checkmarx
3 7 (25.93%) Veracode
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.11%) F5
6 2 (7.41%) Imperva
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle
7 1 (3.70%) Qualys