Security Tester Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Tester role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Tester
Rank 527 569 584
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Security Tester 6 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.007% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £500 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Security Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Security Tester within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Security Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Security Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Security Tester Daily Rate Trend

Security Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Security Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Security Tester
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 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
England +65 6 £400 -20.00%
South East - 4 £400 -
Hampshire - 2 £400 -
Surrey - 2 - -

Security Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Security 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 Security Tester in their job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) UNIX
4 4 (28.57%) HP
4 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (21.43%) PKI
5 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Wireless
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (14.29%) VMware
6 2 (14.29%) CEH
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (14.29%) Firewall
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 2 (14.29%) Java
6 2 (14.29%) ISEB
6 2 (14.29%) CISSP
6 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (14.29%) J2EE
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle

Security Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Security 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 Security Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) J2EE
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) IIS
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Wireless
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.143%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.143%) GDB
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Open Source
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.143%) STB
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.143%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 3 (21.43%) OWASP
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.143%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.143%) Python
3 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) HP AIS
2 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
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