GWAPT Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

GWAPT falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 86 66 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.75% 16.10% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 44 80
10th Percentile £318 £393 £385
25th Percentile £348 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £526 £600 £700
90th Percentile £620 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -20.93% -10.42% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £14.32 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% +22.73% +24.01%
75th Percentile £17.34 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £18.04 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +19.81% -55.74% +105.73%

GWAPT
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing GWAPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for GWAPT in Sheffield

GWAPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva