Penetration Testing Contracts in South Wales

Penetration Testing
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.29% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £363 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 468 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 81.09% 88.14% 83.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 358 562
10th Percentile £150 £190 £255
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% +9.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £473 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.53% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 31
10th Percentile £11.21 £14.29 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -27.44% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52.31 £23.75 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.50 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.19% -24.74% +40.85%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in South Wales

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cardiff - 1 £363 - 1
Penetration Testing
Wales

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks