Penetration Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

Penetration Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 89 67
Rank change year-on-year +20 -22 -12
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 19 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.99% 0.71% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 0.77% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 4
10th Percentile - £570 -
25th Percentile £463 £588 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £438
90th Percentile - £660 -
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% -7.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Penetration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 1,034 848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.07% 92.24% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 870 599
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +11.63% +3.02%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £618
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 24
10th Percentile £12.00 - £15.26
25th Percentile £14.41 £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £70.80 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.46% +19.49% +18.50%
75th Percentile £27.00 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £43.38 £86.00 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £48.27
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.41% +9.70%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Wiltshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Wiltshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Corsham -7 13 £516 -19.02% 3
Swindon +14 4 - -
Penetration Testing
South West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) Firewall
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Network Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Data Centre
1 15 (78.95%) Private Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (78.95%) Resource Management
2 15 (78.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 13 (68.42%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (21.05%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Red Team
5 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) Cyber Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (10.53%) Escalation Management
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.53%) Network Management
6 2 (10.53%) RBAC
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
6 2 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (10.53%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (5.26%) C
2 1 (5.26%) C++
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Ruby
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) CREST Certified
2 2 (10.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (73.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk