GWAPT Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 92 74 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.53% 16.09% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 49 87
10th Percentile £316 £338 £256
25th Percentile £346 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% -10.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £688
90th Percentile £649 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £14.32 - £14.90
25th Percentile £15.01 £11.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -55.74% +105.73%
75th Percentile £17.34 £15.25 £40.25
90th Percentile £18.04 - £46.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +66.67%

GWAPT
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GWAPT in South Yorkshire

GWAPT
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWAPT within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 2025. 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
Sheffield - 1 £700 - 1
GWAPT
Yorkshire

GWAPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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