The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Penetration Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire region.

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
Penetration Testing
Rank 87 77 78
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.080% 0.895% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.113% 1.237% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
Average daily rate £425 £453 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £60.00 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -20.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
887 1132 740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.68% 72.33% 65.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 659 357
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 30
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Testing across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Penetration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Penetration Testing across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Penetration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Penetration Testing across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Penetration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Penetration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds -17 1 £425 -6.07%
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Penetration Testing 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 Penetration Testing.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) InfoPath
2 1 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Phone
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) C

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Penetration Testing 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 Penetration Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB