GWAPT Contract Job Trends in England

GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 532 597
Rank change year-on-year +27 +65 -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.003% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.012% 0.010% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £487
25th Percentile - - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -19.19% -
75th Percentile - - £499
90th Percentile - - £500
UK median daily rate £733 £400 £495
% change year-on-year +83.13% -19.19% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GWAPT falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,694 9,987 12,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.52% 30.24% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,481 6,309 7,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 676 651 613
10th Percentile £18.13 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.24 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.17 £79.02
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

GWAPT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GWAPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GWAPT in England

GWAPT
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GWAPT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GWAPT

GWAPT
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWAPT within the England region over the 6 months to 29 August 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 1
North of England - 1 £700 - 1
GWAPT
UK

GWAPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva