Security Testing Contracts in England

Security Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 467 561
Rank change year-on-year +133 +94 -65
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 209 195 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.43% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 122 170
10th Percentile £463 £450 £387
25th Percentile £550 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.87% +11.25%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £675
90th Percentile £780 £800 £823
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
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 Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +106 102 £650 - 17
South East +59 77 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England +35 12 £475 -17.39% 17
North West +18 11 £475 -14.80% 11
South West +22 6 £580 -2.32% 4
Midlands +18 5 £538 -10.42% 5
West Midlands +12 4 £650 -0.95% 5
East of England +11 3 £700 - 3
Yorkshire +24 1 - - 6
East Midlands +13 1 £355 -40.83%
Security Testing
UK

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.22%) Apache
1 13 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.31%) nginx
3 4 (1.91%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.06%) SaaS
2 61 (29.19%) IaaS
3 60 (28.71%) PaaS
4 42 (20.10%) Azure
5 34 (16.27%) AWS
6 21 (10.05%) Serverless
7 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.31%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 9 (4.31%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.39%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.39%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.39%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.91%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.49%) 5G
1 47 (22.49%) Broadband
2 20 (9.57%) VPN
3 19 (9.09%) BGP
4 18 (8.61%) Firewall
5 13 (6.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 13 (6.22%) MPLS
6 12 (5.74%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (3.83%) LAN
7 8 (3.83%) WAN
7 8 (3.83%) WLAN
8 7 (3.35%) Wireless
9 6 (2.87%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.87%) OSPF
10 5 (2.39%) Cisco Wireless
10 5 (2.39%) IPsec
11 3 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.96%) DNS
13 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.74%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.74%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.35%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (10.05%) JIRA
2 19 (9.09%) Git
2 19 (9.09%) GitLab
3 16 (7.66%) TestRail
4 13 (6.22%) Robot Framework
5 11 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.26%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.87%) Postman
7 5 (2.39%) NUnit
7 5 (2.39%) Selenium
8 4 (1.91%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.44%) FitNesse
9 3 (1.44%) JMeter
9 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.44%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.96%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (23.44%) Law
2 48 (22.97%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (16.75%) Finance
4 32 (15.31%) Social Skills
5 23 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.74%) Banking
7 12 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.35%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.44%) Back Office
10 3 (1.44%) Electronics
10 3 (1.44%) Front Office
10 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.48%) Automotive
12 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (28.23%) Tester
2 51 (24.40%) Penetration Tester
3 47 (22.49%) Security Penetration Tester
3 47 (22.49%) Security Specialist
3 47 (22.49%) Security Tester
3 47 (22.49%) Testing Specialist
4 27 (12.92%) Architect
5 25 (11.96%) Senior
6 23 (11.00%) Test Engineer
7 19 (9.09%) Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Security Architect
9 12 (5.74%) Lead
9 12 (5.74%) Project Manager
9 12 (5.74%) Security Manager
10 11 (5.26%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Consultant
11 10 (4.78%) Security Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Security Project Manager
12 9 (4.31%) Security Consultant
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.97%) Web Services
2 23 (11.00%) REST
3 20 (9.57%) SOAP
4 16 (7.66%) CSS
5 15 (7.18%) HTML
6 13 (6.22%) NETCONF
6 13 (6.22%) RESTCONF
7 12 (5.74%) YANG
8 11 (5.26%) Sass
9 10 (4.78%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.78%) Laravel
9 10 (4.78%) WebSockets
10 9 (4.31%) Node.js
11 8 (3.83%) .NET
12 7 (3.35%) Playwright
13 5 (2.39%) ARM Templates
13 5 (2.39%) GraphQL
14 4 (1.91%) ActiveMQ
14 4 (1.91%) Apache Camel
14 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.71%) Mobile App
2 18 (8.61%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.18%) IoT
4 12 (5.74%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.39%) PKI
5 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.44%) PMI
7 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.48%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.61%) Linux
2 9 (4.31%) Unix
2 9 (4.31%) Windows
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle Linux
3 6 (2.87%) Solaris
3 6 (2.87%) VMS
4 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (43.06%) Application Security
2 76 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (31.58%) Test Automation
4 63 (30.14%) Penetration Testing
5 59 (28.23%) OWASP
6 56 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 54 (25.84%) CI/CD
8 50 (23.92%) Agile
8 50 (23.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 44 (21.05%) DevOps
10 33 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (15.31%) DevSecOps
12 31 (14.83%) Static Application Security Testing
13 25 (11.96%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 25 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (11.48%) Performance Testing
14 24 (11.48%) Scrum
15 23 (11.00%) Integration Testing
16 22 (10.53%) SDLC
17 19 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.40%) SQL
2 26 (12.44%) Python
3 18 (8.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.18%) PHP
5 9 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.87%) Java
8 5 (2.39%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) C
10 2 (0.96%) Bash
10 2 (0.96%) C++
10 2 (0.96%) Perl
10 2 (0.96%) Ruby
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 67 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.40%) CREST Certified
3 49 (23.44%) OSCP
3 49 (23.44%) SANS
4 48 (22.97%) GIAC
5 47 (22.49%) GPEN
6 26 (12.44%) Degree
7 19 (9.09%) SC Cleared
8 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (6.22%) CISSP
10 11 (5.26%) CISM
11 7 (3.35%) CISA
12 6 (2.87%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.96%) CEH
15 2 (0.96%) CHECK Team Leader
15 2 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.96%) ISEB
15 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (26.79%) PCI DSS
2 51 (24.40%) GDPR
3 48 (22.97%) NCSC
4 26 (12.44%) Accessibility
5 22 (10.53%) NIST
6 13 (6.22%) QA
7 9 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.91%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.44%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.96%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (12.92%) Docker
2 7 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.87%) KVM
3 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (10.53%) Terraform
2 12 (5.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.78%) Ansible
4 6 (2.87%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.96%) Grafana
5 2 (0.96%) Puppet
5 2 (0.96%) SCCM
6 1 (0.48%) Graylog
6 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Nagios
6 1 (0.48%) Nessus
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 47 (22.49%) Virgin Media
2 20 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.13%) Oracle
4 10 (4.78%) VMware
5 8 (3.83%) SAP
6 7 (3.35%) Cisco
6 7 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.87%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.87%) Juniper
8 5 (2.39%) Extreme Networks
8 5 (2.39%) Rapid7
8 5 (2.39%) Sophos
9 4 (1.91%) Google
9 4 (1.91%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.91%) WSO2
10 3 (1.44%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.44%) Qualys
10 3 (1.44%) Veracode
11 2 (0.96%) CA