The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Penetration 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 Senior Penetration Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Penetration Tester
Rank - - 583
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Penetration Tester 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Penetration Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Penetration Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Penetration Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Penetration Tester Daily Rate Trend

Senior Penetration Tester
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Penetration 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 Senior Penetration Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) STB
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) GDB

Senior Penetration Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Penetration 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 Senior Penetration Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell