The first table below looks at the demand for GPEN in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GPEN over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
Rank 531 568 -
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -
Contract jobs citing GPEN 10 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.003% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.115% 0.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £475 £369 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £60.00 - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8728 9969 9842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.18% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4650 5163 4803
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 522 685
Average hourly rate £22.13 £20.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.92% -8.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%

GPEN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GPEN within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

GPEN Jobs Demand Trend

GPEN
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GPEN within the UK.

GPEN Daily Rate Trend

GPEN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GPEN within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

GPEN Daily Rate Histogram

GPEN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GPEN within the UK.

GPEN Hourly Rate Trend

GPEN
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPEN within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +33 9 £475 +28.81% 1
England +20 9 £475 +28.81% 1
Oxford - - - -
Southampton - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
City of London - - - -
South East - - - -

GPEN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GPEN also 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 that cited GPEN.

1 14 (93.33%) GIAC
2 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 10 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 10 (66.67%) PKI
2 10 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 10 (66.67%) Java EE
2 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Imperva
2 10 (66.67%) F5
2 10 (66.67%) GWAPT
2 10 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 10 (66.67%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) Perl
2 10 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (66.67%) IIS
2 10 (66.67%) COM+
2 10 (66.67%) SOAP
2 10 (66.67%) Web Services
2 10 (66.67%) XML
2 10 (66.67%) XSLT
2 10 (66.67%) UNIX
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) JBoss
2 10 (66.67%) Apache
2 10 (66.67%) LDAP
2 10 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 10 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft

GPEN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GPEN also 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 that cited GPEN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 10 (66.67%) Java EE
1 10 (66.67%) COM+
1 10 (66.67%) SOAP
1 10 (66.67%) Web Services
1 10 (66.67%) XML
1 10 (66.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 10 (66.67%) IIS
1 10 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
1 10 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 10 (66.67%) NetScaler
1 10 (66.67%) LDAP
1 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
1 1 (6.667%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Web Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Tester
2 5 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (66.67%) UNIX
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) GIAC
2 10 (66.67%) GWAPT
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Imperva
1 10 (66.67%) F5
1 10 (66.67%) JBoss
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 10 (66.67%) Citrix
1 10 (66.67%) Red Hat
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