Security Testing Contracts in London

Security Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 397 469
Rank change year-on-year +87 +72 -71
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 90 85 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 56 97
10th Percentile £425 £441 £403
25th Percentile £550 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -1.96%
75th Percentile £770 £769 £725
90th Percentile £780 £834 £850
England median daily rate £600 £600 £540
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +1.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
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 Security Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Central London +40 10 £625 -7.41% 1
East London - 5 £650 - 2
Security Testing
England

Security 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 5 (5.56%) Anypoint
1 5 (5.56%) nginx
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 21 (23.33%) AWS
3 20 (22.22%) SaaS
4 17 (18.89%) Serverless
5 12 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (13.33%) IaaS
5 12 (13.33%) PaaS
6 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.56%) Apigee
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
10 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.11%) AWS IoT
11 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) VPN
3 4 (4.44%) BGP
4 3 (3.33%) DNS
4 3 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.22%) IPsec
5 2 (2.22%) MPLS
5 2 (2.22%) OSPF
5 2 (2.22%) WAN
5 2 (2.22%) Wireless
5 2 (2.22%) WLAN
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (1.11%) HTTP
6 1 (1.11%) Network Security
6 1 (1.11%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.11%) VLAN
6 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.11%) Big Data
3 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.11%) HDInsight
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Git
1 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.89%) GitLab
2 8 (8.89%) JIRA
3 5 (5.56%) Burp Suite
3 5 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 5 (5.56%) TestRail
4 4 (4.44%) Selenium
5 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.33%) FitNesse
5 3 (3.33%) JMeter
5 3 (3.33%) LoadRunner
5 3 (3.33%) Postman
5 3 (3.33%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.22%) NUnit
6 2 (2.22%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.11%) AppScan
7 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (33.33%) Finance
2 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Banking
6 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.33%) Back Office
8 3 (3.33%) Front Office
8 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.22%) Electronics
9 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (22.22%) Architect
2 16 (17.78%) Senior
3 15 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Tester
6 10 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Cloud Security Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Security Architect
9 7 (7.78%) Project Manager
9 7 (7.78%) Security Manager
9 7 (7.78%) Security Project Manager
10 6 (6.67%) Consultant
10 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 6 (6.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 5 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (5.56%) MuleSoft Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) REST
2 7 (7.78%) SOAP
3 6 (6.67%) CSS
3 6 (6.67%) HTML
3 6 (6.67%) Laravel
3 6 (6.67%) Sass
3 6 (6.67%) WebSockets
4 5 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (5.56%) Apache Camel
4 5 (5.56%) Node.js
4 5 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.56%) RAML
4 5 (5.56%) Spring
4 5 (5.56%) Swagger
5 4 (4.44%) Playwright
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.22%) NETCONF
6 2 (2.22%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Mobile App
2 12 (13.33%) IoT
3 9 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.33%) PMI
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) PKI
7 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Solaris
2 5 (5.56%) Unix
2 5 (5.56%) VMS
3 4 (4.44%) Windows
3 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Application Security
2 31 (34.44%) CI/CD
3 30 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 29 (32.22%) Static Application Security Testing
5 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (25.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 21 (23.33%) Agile
8 20 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 19 (21.11%) SDLC
10 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 17 (18.89%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (16.67%) DevOps
12 15 (16.67%) Information Security
13 13 (14.44%) Cloud Security
13 13 (14.44%) Computer Science
13 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (14.44%) Security Architecture
14 12 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
14 12 (13.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) SQL
2 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.00%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) PHP
4 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.33%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) C++
7 1 (1.11%) Perl
7 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) Ruby
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Degree
2 13 (14.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.11%) CISM
3 10 (11.11%) CISSP
4 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) CISA
5 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.22%) CEH
7 2 (2.22%) CRISC
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.11%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.11%) GIAC
8 1 (1.11%) ISEB
8 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.11%) OSCP
8 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) NIST
2 12 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 12 (13.33%) QA
3 7 (7.78%) PCI DSS
4 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.44%) GDPR
5 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) KVM
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) Terraform
2 12 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) SCCM
5 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Graylog
5 1 (1.11%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.11%) Nagios
5 1 (1.11%) Nessus
5 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) Oracle
3 9 (10.00%) VMware
4 7 (7.78%) SAP
5 6 (6.67%) Qualys
6 5 (5.56%) Checkmarx
6 5 (5.56%) Google
6 5 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 5 (5.56%) Veracode
6 5 (5.56%) WSO2
7 3 (3.33%) CA
8 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.22%) Juniper
8 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.11%) Databricks
9 1 (1.11%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.11%) F5
9 1 (1.11%) Imperva
9 1 (1.11%) Splunk