GPEN Contracts in London

GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GPEN qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 498 600
Rank change year-on-year +113 +102 -
Contract jobs citing GPEN 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.093% 0.034% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £434 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £634 £688 £650
90th Percentile £681 - -
England median daily rate £638 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% +27.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

GPEN 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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,318 5,831 6,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.24% 21.46% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 3,933 4,543
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 82 149
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.46 £22.69
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.25 £64.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GPEN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GPEN in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GPEN in London.

Daily rate trend for GPEN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GPEN in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GPEN in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (50.00%) OWASP
3 2 (50.00%) Red Team
3 2 (50.00%) Social Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) GIAC
1 4 (100.00%) OSCP
2 3 (75.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) CEH
3 2 (50.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) CCFP
4 1 (25.00%) CCNP
4 1 (25.00%) CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) CHFI
4 1 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (25.00%) EnCE
4 1 (25.00%) GREM
4 1 (25.00%) MCP
4 1 (25.00%) OSCE
4 1 (25.00%) OSWP
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (25.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft