Penetration Testing Contracts in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 0.97% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +23.81% -10.64% +7.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 121 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 82.52% 81.21% 75.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 91 106
10th Percentile £258 £163 £166
25th Percentile £325 £306 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +1.59%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £521
90th Percentile £553 £663 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £13.87 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.13 - £14.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +78.49% +17.64% +6.42%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £19.77
90th Percentile £56.13 - £20.37
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
% change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £625 - 1
Penetration Testing
West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory