Penetration Testing Contracts in the City of London

Penetration 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 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 123 158 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 -27
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 8 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.53% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 14
10th Percentile £438 £414 -
25th Percentile £500 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +25.71% -30.00%
75th Percentile £725 £681 £586
90th Percentile £729 £791 £685
Central London median daily rate £700 £550 £438
% change year-on-year +27.27% +25.71% -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,388 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.18% 91.69% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,265 2,992
10th Percentile £354 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £808 £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 27 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £19.36 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +78.26%
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%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) CSOC
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Application Security
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (25.00%) Database Security
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Key Management
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Auditing
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Assurance
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Scorecard
5 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (12.50%) QA