Penetration Testing Contracts in Swindon

Penetration Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 35 39
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 3.17% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 0.50% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 201 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 76.19% 86.64% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 157 202
10th Percentile £141 £348 £307
25th Percentile £263 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £641 £694 £650
Wiltshire median daily rate £545 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -5.22% +11.63% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £12.00 - £15.18
25th Percentile £13.18 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 £63.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -73.81% +265.22% -31.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £26.19
90th Percentile £30.25 - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £14.54 £70.80 £59.25
% change year-on-year -79.46% +19.49% +18.50%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Swindon

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Swindon

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Red Team
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Escalation Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk