Penetration Testing Contracts in London

Penetration Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 348 467
Rank change year-on-year +48 +119 -68
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 94 148 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.60% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 79
10th Percentile £436 £450 £350
25th Percentile £534 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £675
90th Percentile £775 £835 £780
England median daily rate £600 £575 £586
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.92% +17.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £83.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Penetration 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,796 24,868 36,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 91.10% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,308 17,810 26,281
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 284 428
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +9.09% +10.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.35 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
East London -1 10 £585 +8.33% 2
Central London +31 8 £700 +24.44% 7
South London - 1 - -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) AWS
3 11 (11.70%) GCP
4 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.38%) SaaS
6 3 (3.19%) GitHub
6 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.06%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) Firewall
2 12 (12.77%) Network Security
3 9 (9.57%) SD-WAN
3 9 (9.57%) WAN
4 6 (6.38%) Wireless
5 2 (2.13%) HTTP
5 2 (2.13%) Internet
6 1 (1.06%) DHCP
6 1 (1.06%) DNS
6 1 (1.06%) FTP
6 1 (1.06%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.06%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
3 9 (9.57%) Burp Suite
4 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.19%) Metasploit
6 1 (1.06%) JIRA
6 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (35.11%) Finance
2 21 (22.34%) Banking
3 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.13%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.06%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (14.89%) Consultant
2 13 (13.83%) Security Engineer
3 12 (12.77%) Architect
3 12 (12.77%) Security Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Senior
5 10 (10.64%) Security Consultant
6 8 (8.51%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (8.51%) Tester
7 7 (7.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Cloud Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Cloud Security Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Cyber Threat Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Ethical Hacker
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 3 (3.19%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.06%) EDI
1 1 (1.06%) RESTful
1 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Cyber Threat
1 11 (11.70%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.51%) PKI
2 8 (8.51%) Security Posture
3 6 (6.38%) IoT
4 4 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) CSOC
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Windows
2 13 (13.83%) Linux
3 7 (7.45%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (31.91%) Cloud Security
2 30 (31.91%) Information Security
3 22 (23.40%) DevOps
4 21 (22.34%) DevSecOps
4 21 (22.34%) Threat Modelling
5 20 (21.28%) Security Operations
6 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.02%) Computer Science
7 16 (17.02%) Red Team
7 16 (17.02%) Risk Assessment
7 16 (17.02%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (15.96%) OWASP
9 14 (14.89%) Application Security
9 14 (14.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 13 (13.83%) Ethical Hacking
10 13 (13.83%) SIEM
11 12 (12.77%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (12.77%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) Python
2 9 (9.57%) C#
3 7 (7.45%) Go
3 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.32%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.19%) Perl
6 2 (2.13%) C
6 2 (2.13%) C++
6 2 (2.13%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.06%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) Ruby
7 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Degree
2 16 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.83%) CREST Certified
3 13 (13.83%) OSCP
4 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
5 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
6 9 (9.57%) CISSP
7 8 (8.51%) CHECK Team Leader
7 8 (8.51%) CISM
7 8 (8.51%) GIAC
8 7 (7.45%) CEH
9 4 (4.26%) GPEN
10 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.13%) CCNA
11 2 (2.13%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.13%) CSSLP
11 2 (2.13%) ECSA
11 2 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.02%) NIST
2 15 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 8 (8.51%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.45%) QA
5 5 (5.32%) GDPR
5 5 (5.32%) PMO
6 4 (4.26%) COBIT
6 4 (4.26%) NCSC
7 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.13%) ISO 22301
7 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.13%) SLA
8 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 15 (15.96%) Terraform
2 6 (6.38%) Nessus
3 1 (1.06%) CASB
3 1 (1.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.06%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.64%) Google
3 6 (6.38%) Qualys
4 4 (4.26%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco
5 2 (2.13%) Remedy
5 2 (2.13%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) BigPanda
6 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.06%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.06%) F5
6 1 (1.06%) Imperva
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle
6 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Veracode
6 1 (1.06%) VMware