Penetration Testing Contracts in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 21 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 6 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.15% 2.31% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £582 £523 -
25th Percentile £698 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -
75th Percentile £788 £694 -
90th Percentile - £728 -
North West median daily rate £618 £588 £468
% change year-on-year +5.11% +25.67% -9.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 344 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.88% 88.43% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 199 325
10th Percentile £323 £265 £250
25th Percentile £390 £413 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +4.05%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £540
90th Percentile £650 £626 £630
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.70% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 31 28
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.14 -
25th Percentile - £20.07 £10.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £18.04
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +69.34% -5.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £24.69
90th Percentile £47.50 £35.75 £30.80
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% +59.09% +22.22%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Knutsford - 6 £775 - 1
Penetration Testing
North West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (83.33%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (83.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Cryptography
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Data Security
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 5 (83.33%) Product Roadmap
2 5 (83.33%) Product Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (83.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Log Correlation
3 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) MCSA
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk