Security Testing Contracts in the City of London

Security Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 160 177
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 9 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.36% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 8
10th Percentile £520 - £402
25th Percentile £550 £600 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £750 £485
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +54.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £675 £870 £564
90th Percentile £680 £925 £638
Central London median daily rate £645 £700 £475
% change year-on-year -7.86% +47.37% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the City of London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the City of London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the City of London

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
2 1 (11.11%) AppScan
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Information Security Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Modeller
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) FpML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) JAXB
1 1 (11.11%) Laravel
1 1 (11.11%) Sass
1 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XML Schema
1 1 (11.11%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Solaris
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Invoice Processing
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) KVM
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Graylog
1 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Nagios
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Veracode