GXPN Contracts in England

GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GXPN qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 647 788
Rank change year-on-year +110 +141 -
Contract jobs citing GXPN 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.003% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.009% 0.007% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 - £600

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GXPN is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,509 13,878 15,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.75% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 9,286 10,105
10th Percentile £310 £331 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 746 688
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.88
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.59
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

GXPN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GXPN in England

GXPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GXPN in England.

Daily rate trend for GXPN in England

GXPN
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 GXPN within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +101 1 £400 -
GXPN
UK

GXPN
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCFP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EC-Council LPT
1 1 (100.00%) ECIH
1 1 (100.00%) ECSA
1 1 (100.00%) GAWN
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCFE
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GPPA
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) GSNA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco