Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 393 461
Rank change year-on-year +126 +68 -62
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 77 81 159
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.35% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 125
10th Percentile £500 £450 £370
25th Percentile £531 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £619
90th Percentile £699 £775 £715
UK median daily rate £613 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Testing.

Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) AWS
3 12 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 7 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (9.09%) Serverless
5 5 (6.49%) Azure API Management
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.60%) PaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
3 1 (1.30%) BGP
3 1 (1.30%) LAN
3 1 (1.30%) OSPF
3 1 (1.30%) SSL
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
3 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) Visual Studio
3 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.19%) GitLab
5 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.90%) JMeter
5 3 (3.90%) LoadRunner
5 3 (3.90%) NUnit
5 3 (3.90%) Postman
6 2 (2.60%) Burp Suite
6 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.60%) FitNesse
6 2 (2.60%) JIRA
6 2 (2.60%) Selenium
6 2 (2.60%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.60%) TestRail
7 1 (1.30%) Appium
7 1 (1.30%) JUnit
7 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.30%) TestNG
General
1 21 (27.27%) Finance
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Electronics
6 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
6 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.60%) Back Office
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Automotive
8 1 (1.30%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Consultant
2 10 (12.99%) Security Consultant
3 8 (10.39%) Lead
3 8 (10.39%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Information Security Consultant
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Test Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Vulnerability Management Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) CSS
2 10 (12.99%) HTML
3 9 (11.69%) Sass
4 8 (10.39%) Laravel
4 8 (10.39%) WebSockets
5 6 (7.79%) .NET
5 6 (7.79%) REST
6 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.49%) ARM Templates
6 5 (6.49%) Playwright
7 4 (5.19%) SOAP
8 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.90%) JSON
8 3 (3.90%) Node.js
8 3 (3.90%) OAuth
8 3 (3.90%) OpenID
8 3 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (3.90%) XML
9 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.30%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.19%) IoT
4 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 5 (6.49%) Windows
3 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) DevOps
1 33 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 29 (37.66%) CI/CD
3 24 (31.17%) Application Security
4 20 (25.97%) Agile
5 17 (22.08%) Static Application Security Testing
6 16 (20.78%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (20.78%) DevSecOps
6 16 (20.78%) Information Security
7 15 (19.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (16.88%) SDLC
9 13 (16.88%) TDD
10 10 (12.99%) Test Strategy
10 10 (12.99%) Waterfall
11 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.69%) Threat Modelling
12 8 (10.39%) Full Stack Development
12 8 (10.39%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.29%) PHP
3 8 (10.39%) SQL
4 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.79%) Python
6 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Degree
1 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.49%) CISSP
3 4 (5.19%) CISM
3 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.90%) CRISC
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.30%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.30%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.30%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.09%) NIST
3 6 (7.79%) QA
4 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.60%) GRC
6 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
1 8 (10.39%) Terraform
2 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 3 (3.90%) SCCM
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) Graylog
4 1 (1.30%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.30%) Nagios
4 1 (1.30%) Nmap
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) SAP
4 4 (5.19%) Rapid7
4 4 (5.19%) Sophos
5 2 (2.60%) CA
5 2 (2.60%) Qualys
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Juniper
6 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) WSO2