Penetration Testing Contracts in Manchester

Penetration Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 111 128
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 9 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.62% 0.33% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.36% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile - £465 £296
25th Percentile £425 £488 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.64% +57.19%
75th Percentile £475 £572 £675
90th Percentile £535 £611 -
North West median daily rate £666 £525 £523
% change year-on-year +26.86% +0.48% +19.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,265 1,682 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.18% 91.71% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 1,235 1,806
10th Percentile £323 £316 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £587
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 54 50
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.85 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.82%
75th Percentile £59.38 £47.82 £24.69
90th Percentile £73.90 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Manchester

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Manchester

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Ethical Hacker
1 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
2 3 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (33.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (22.22%) Insider Threat
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Kali Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Purple Team
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) OWASP
4 2 (22.22%) Red Team
5 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (11.11%) Biomedicine
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (44.44%) CISM
2 4 (44.44%) CISSP
3 3 (33.33%) OSCP
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
2 1 (11.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike