Security Testing Contracts in England

Security Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 475 557
Rank change year-on-year +67 +82 -69
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 142 161 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.38% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 105 169
10th Percentile £425 £440 £362
25th Percentile £550 £500 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +1.89%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £669
90th Percentile £780 £820 £785
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.88 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 June 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 +87 90 £600 - 20
South East +11 20 £550 -8.33% 9
North of England +11 10 £475 -13.85% 11
North West +14 9 £475 -11.63% 7
South West +8 7 £590 -1.67% 6
Midlands +3 7 £623 -14.14% 8
West Midlands +1 4 £425 -41.38% 5
East Midlands - 3 £820 - 3
East of England -1 2 £700 -15.15% 2
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 3
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 8 (5.63%) Apache
1 8 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.23%) nginx
3 5 (3.52%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.28%) Azure
2 27 (19.01%) AWS
3 21 (14.79%) SaaS
4 20 (14.08%) Serverless
5 13 (9.15%) IaaS
5 13 (9.15%) PaaS
6 12 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.23%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 6 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.23%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.52%) Apigee
9 4 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.11%) GCP
11 2 (1.41%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.45%) Firewall
2 11 (7.75%) VPN
3 10 (7.04%) BGP
4 8 (5.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 8 (5.63%) MPLS
5 7 (4.93%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.11%) DNS
7 3 (2.11%) LAN
8 2 (1.41%) IPsec
8 2 (1.41%) OSPF
8 2 (1.41%) WAN
8 2 (1.41%) Wireless
8 2 (1.41%) WLAN
9 1 (0.70%) HTTP
9 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.70%) VLAN
9 1 (0.70%) VoIP
9 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.93%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.70%) Big Data
6 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (13.38%) Git
2 16 (11.27%) JIRA
3 14 (9.86%) GitLab
4 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.75%) TestRail
5 9 (6.34%) Visual Studio
6 8 (5.63%) Postman
6 8 (5.63%) Robot Framework
7 7 (4.93%) NUnit
8 6 (4.23%) Burp Suite
9 5 (3.52%) Selenium
9 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.11%) FitNesse
10 3 (2.11%) JMeter
10 3 (2.11%) LoadRunner
10 3 (2.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.70%) TestCafe
General
1 37 (26.06%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.11%) Back Office
8 3 (2.11%) Electronics
8 3 (2.11%) Front Office
8 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Architect
1 28 (19.72%) Senior
2 22 (15.49%) Security Architect
3 19 (13.38%) Test Engineer
4 17 (11.97%) Security Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) Developer
5 14 (9.86%) Tester
6 11 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Consultant
6 11 (7.75%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Security Consultant
8 9 (6.34%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Cloud Security Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Security Architect
10 7 (4.93%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.93%) Security Manager
10 7 (4.93%) Security Project Manager
10 7 (4.93%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.27%) REST
2 13 (9.15%) SOAP
3 9 (6.34%) AngularJS
3 9 (6.34%) CSS
3 9 (6.34%) HTML
3 9 (6.34%) Playwright
4 8 (5.63%) NETCONF
4 8 (5.63%) RESTCONF
5 7 (4.93%) .NET
5 7 (4.93%) GraphQL
5 7 (4.93%) Laravel
5 7 (4.93%) Node.js
5 7 (4.93%) Sass
5 7 (4.93%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.93%) YANG
6 5 (3.52%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.52%) RAML
6 5 (3.52%) Spring
6 5 (3.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) IoT
1 15 (10.56%) Security Posture
2 13 (9.15%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.11%) PMI
8 2 (1.41%) PKI
8 2 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Oracle Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Solaris
2 6 (4.23%) Unix
2 6 (4.23%) VMS
3 5 (3.52%) Windows
4 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.73%) Test Automation
2 49 (34.51%) CI/CD
3 46 (32.39%) Application Security
4 41 (28.87%) Agile
5 39 (27.46%) DevOps
6 33 (23.24%) Static Application Security Testing
7 31 (21.83%) DevSecOps
8 27 (19.01%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 27 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (16.90%) Penetration Testing
9 24 (16.90%) SDLC
10 23 (16.20%) Vulnerability Management
11 22 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.79%) Scrum
13 20 (14.08%) Performance Testing
14 18 (12.68%) Information Security
15 17 (11.97%) Load Testing
16 16 (11.27%) Computer Science
16 16 (11.27%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.90%) SQL
2 18 (12.68%) Python
3 12 (8.45%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.75%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.34%) PHP
6 6 (4.23%) Java
7 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.11%) C
9 2 (1.41%) Bash
9 2 (1.41%) C++
9 2 (1.41%) Perl
9 2 (1.41%) Ruby
9 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Degree
2 16 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.15%) CISSP
4 10 (7.04%) CISM
5 7 (4.93%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.82%) CISA
6 4 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.41%) CEH
8 2 (1.41%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.41%) CRISC
8 2 (1.41%) ISEB
8 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.41%) OSCP
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.70%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) Accessibility
2 20 (14.08%) NIST
3 14 (9.86%) QA
4 11 (7.75%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (4.23%) GDPR
6 6 (4.23%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.11%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (16.90%) Docker
2 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.23%) KVM
3 6 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (16.20%) Terraform
2 12 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.04%) Ansible
4 3 (2.11%) SCCM
5 2 (1.41%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.70%) Graylog
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
6 1 (0.70%) Nagios
6 1 (0.70%) Nessus
6 1 (0.70%) Nmap
6 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 26 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.38%) Oracle
3 11 (7.75%) VMware
4 8 (5.63%) SAP
5 6 (4.23%) Qualys
6 5 (3.52%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.52%) Google
6 5 (3.52%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.52%) Veracode
6 5 (3.52%) WSO2
7 3 (2.11%) CA
8 2 (1.41%) Cisco
8 2 (1.41%) Databricks
8 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.41%) Juniper
8 2 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.70%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.70%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.70%) Splunk