Penetration Testing Contracts in Wales

Penetration Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 62 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% - -
75th Percentile £394 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Penetration Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 289 508 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 71.18% 87.74% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 387 572
10th Percentile £143 £180 £200
25th Percentile £309 £319 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - +12.04%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £575
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 28
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.63 £12.78
25th Percentile £15.41 £16.98 £16.08
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -15.11% +4.12%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £28.38
90th Percentile £85.50 £49.38 £47.03
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Wales

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Wales

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 June 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 Wales +15 1 £363 -27.50% 1
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks